Elon Musk has tweeted that Twitter will set up a ‘Content Moderation Council’ consisting of people with ‘widely diverse perspectives’. One of the key tasks of this council would be to consider unblocking the accounts of those who have been permanently suspended. According to Musk’s tweet, no major decisions about content moderation or reinstatement of blocked accounts would be made without that council. This suggests that the rumor of unblocking potentially controversial users, including former US President Donald Trump, will not happen suddenly and may not happen at all. Musk has previously indicated that he bans the account contrary to a commitment to free speech, and that he views Twitter as a digital “public class”.
Twitter will set up a content moderation council with widely varied perspectives.
There shall be no major material decision or account restoration before the convening of that council.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) 28 October 2022
Elon Musk took over ownership of Twitter with brutal efficiency on Thursday. According to people familiar with the matter, soon after signing the deal, he fired top executives including Twitter Chief Executive Officer Parag Agarwal, Chief Financial Officer Ned Sehgal and Legal Affairs and Policy Chief Vijaya Gadde. He had accused him of misleading him and Twitter investors about the number of fake accounts on the platform.
“The bird is freed,” he tweeted shortly after completing his acquisition on Thursday, referencing Twitter’s bird logo to his desire to see the company clearly have lower limits on content that is posted. can go.
However, the CEO and self-described free speech absolutist of electric car maker Tesla has also said that he wants to prevent the platform from becoming an echo chamber for hatred and division.
Other goals include “defeating” spam bots on Twitter and creating algorithms that determine how content is publicly presented to its users.
Yet Musk has not given details about how he will achieve all this and who will run the company.
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