The almighty councilors of twitter.

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The almighty councilors of twitter.



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Twitter dissolved its trust and safety council on Monday, a group of volunteers formed in 2016 to advise the company on hate speech and other issues on the platform.


Council members received an email that reads:



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Last week three council members resigned citing concerns for the safety of Twitter users, Musk responded by accusing the council members themselves of refusing to take action against child exploitation.



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Yoel Roth former head of trust and security for the company also resigned in November, Roth appeared frequently in so-called Twitter files along with Vijaya Gadde, both were members of a group involved in peer moderation activities, Taibbi described the group as a smaller and more powerful cadre of top political executives, said that:



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Since the publication of the Twitter files Roth has faced a wave of criticism of a different nature online, screenshots of many previous Roth tweets with inappropriate explicit content of a sexual nature are being shared and commented on.


Meanwhile, journalist Bar Weiss published a fifth of the Twitter files on Monday afternoon, detailing how Trump was banned from the site despite Twitter employees determining that he "did not violate Twitter policies"; the justification given was “due to the risk of further incitement to violence”



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Bari points to how other heads of state incited violence without being vetoed like the former Prime Minister of Malaysia who tweeted "that Muslims have the right to be angry and kill millions of French people for the massacres of the past."



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Or the ayatollah of Iran who said that Israel is a malignant cancerous tumor in the West Asia region that has to be excised and eradicated.



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In response to criticism of previous content moderation decisions, Yoel Roth tweeted on December 1, “you can quarterback all day on concrete decisions and mistakes but the real job is figuring out how to make principled decisions when everything else that he has are bad options”, as if the citizens had chosen him as a “field marshal” so that he could apply his “principle”.



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