The X Files: Leaked documents reveal X staff stripped of moderation power
businesspost.ieSeems a reasonable response to the revelations of the "Twitter Files," which showed how many non-Twitter employees had been empowered to moderate content on the platform previously.
The Twitter Files was unmitigated garbage. It showed nothing.
It was obviously driven by a shared agenda (look at the whose who of reactionary folks involved) to try to create a perception, but for all the extensive archives of activity & moderation history & discussion that was there it had the hardest time hyping up the few tiny little morsels it could find.
Theres been such active work in the world to portray Twitter as some ridiculous ultra left-ist hotbed that went out of their way to steer the site, but that team has again shown vastly more tolerance and openness & willingness to stick up for users in the face of giant institutional/governmental forces than the modern thin skinned & government-complyimg reincarnation X. It's exhausting seeing the constant organizing protesting old Twitter as some horrible terrible place without incredibly strongly principles belief in free speech, and the Twitter Files were the tip of this lame spear struggling desperately to mislead people atop it's fake point.
Non employees had moderation power? I don't remember reading about that and cannot find any sources on google. Care to link?
Includes Musk saying "Old Twitter was basically an arm of the government... It was a State publication."
more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12695205/elon-musk-...
Amazing how hard it is to get a search engine to find these things, innit.
Most of the coverage gets published on substack: https://public.substack.com/p/ctil-files-1-us-and-uk-militar...
I don't see anyone being named as having moderation powers in these links who was not employed by twitter.
"Internal documents show how X content moderators are no longer authorised to take action against accounts posting racist, sexist, and homophobic content"
Huh! I thought Must had fired all these moderators.
Reduce reach but doesn't penalize accounts seems a pretty reasonable compromise. Most of this article is just "things I don't like should be illegal" which is no standard for a society to live by.