Twitter team to fight online extremism ‘vanishes’ after Musk takeover

New Delhi, Sep 3 (IANS) Twitter’s bold plan to sort out extremism on its platform went for a toss when Tesla CEO Elon Musk introduced shopping for it, and in months after that, the well being analysis team disappeared, from 15 staff to simply two, the media reported.

Twitter had partnered with Moonshot, an organization that analyses violent extremists, to start a venture referred to as ‘Redirect’ to curb the unfold of dangerous content material on its platform.

According to The Verge, “the aim was to transfer the corporate from merely reacting to dangerous accounts and posts to proactively guiding customers towards higher behaviour”.

However, earlier than the venture might see the sunshine of the day, Musk in April introduced to purchase the corporate for $44 billion, and all hell broke unfastened.

“Shortly afterwards, staff who’d been main the Moonshot partnership left. And within the months since Musk signed the deal, the well being analysis team has all however evaporated, going from 15 staffers to simply two,” the report mentioned late on Friday.

The venture sought to perceive and tackle person behaviours.

“Instead of specializing in designating dangerous accounts or content material, we search to perceive how customers discover dangerous group content material in accounts after which to redirect these efforts,” learn an inside doc.

Multiple former researchers informed The Verge that the turmoil related to Musk’s bid to buy the corporate “was a breaking level and led them to resolve to pursue different work”.

Some staff who remained had been allegedly informed to “deprioritise Redirect in favour of initiatives associated to bots and spam”, as Musk wished to know the precise variety of spam accounts on the platform.

Twitter has but to react to the report.

Another The Verge report claimed this week that Twitter deliberate to monetise grownup content material on its platform this yr, by permitting grownup creators to promote subscriptions on the micro-blogging platform, and turn into worthwhile in a jiffy.

(Except for the headline, the remainder of this IANS article is un-edited)

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