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Twitter Loses Its Second Trust and Safety Head Under Elon Musk’s Reign
Twitter’s head of trust and safety, former diehard Elon Musk fan Ella Irwin, publicly resigned from her position Thursday just hours after her boss publicly rebuked his own content moderation team. Irwin’s staff had taken action against a transphobic film by Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire.
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Elon Musk Gets Viciously Booed by Stadium Crowd at Dave Chappelle Show
Elon Musk, the billionaire who wants nothing more in life than to be adored by legions of fans, was loudly booed by a crowd in San Francisco on Sunday night after he was invited onstage by comedian Dave Chappelle. And the footage is pretty rough, even if you don’t particularly like Musk.
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Hate Speech on Twitter Skyrocketed While Elon Said He Was Winning, New Research Shows
On November 23rd, Elon Musk tweeted that hate speech “impressions” were down by one third on the platform, along with a graph and a victorious congratulations to his employees. During the same period, the actual use of hate speech on Twitter rose exponentially, according to new research.
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Every Terrible Thing That’s Happened to Twitter in the Last Two Weeks: A Review
Despite the fact that Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter is basically the real-life equivalent of the house-on-fire “this is fine” meme, we just can’t look away. A train wreck in slow motion (or real-time, given the amount of stuff that’s been screwed up in such a short period), it feels like we’re all paying witness…