They had a trust and safety team to do this but dumbfuck laid them off.
most appeared to have moved from Accenture, a firm that provides content moderation contractors to internet companies
Bruh, Accenture is a consulting company, they provide everything contractors.
Bruh, do you really think the author doesn’t know who one of the largest IT agencies in the world is? Could it be, rather, that they were dumbing it down for the audience, since it’s, you know, not an article about Accenture, and ended up with some slightly odd phrasing as a consequence?
Gives you a sense of the thoroughness of the research in this article.
They interviewed someone, that someone mentioned Accenture, and they didn’t even google the company they just put it straight into the article with no checking.
I mean, it’s not wrong, but that’s like saying that twitter is a platform that provides celebrity comments. True, but bruh.
Who knew, it turns running a platform full of hate isn’t appealing to advertisers.
I also noticed Community Notes have become far more interested in nitpicking whatever vaguely leftist post they can find while letting blatant conspiracy theories and right-wing propaganda fly by unchecked.
A for effort.
Nice paywall :/
Also: bypass-paywalls-clean :) I didn’t even notice it was paywalled until I sent the link to a friend and she told me it was paywalled 😆
I keep hearing about toxicity on X, then not seeing it. I’m starting to doubt this premise is true.
I observed racism and toxicity on X. Reported a couple pretty bad posts (eg a user wishing for drowning of immigrants), but the platform decided they’re okay based their own moderation rules.
Can’t decide if this response is Absence of Evidence or Black Swan fallacy. Either way, just because you haven’t experienced something, doesn’t mean its false.
Haven’t been on it since Elon purchased the company. I do know that Twitter by virtue of being powered by who you follow can have a vastly different feel to different people.
If you start getting into political stuff, even in the before times, it could get pretty nasty. I can only imagine that’s worse now.
Try following the blue checkmark folk, and you’ll soon be flooded with toxicity. Alternatively… avoid the blue like the plague it is, and you’ll find very little toxicity.
X is “pay to troll”.
