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Twitter's new head of trust and safety says the site is increasingly leaning toward automation for content curation, removing some manual reviews and tending to limit delivery of certain content rather than removing it entirely.
Ella Irwin, vice president of product management for trust and safety at Twitter, was quoted by Reuters as saying that the platform will also restrict hashtags and search results that have been abused in certain areas, such as child exploitation regardless of the "benign" repercussions of the decision. . Use these terms.
In his first interview with Twitter executives since Elon Musk bought the company on Oct. 28, Irving said the most important change to the company has been the team's license to act quickly and attack as much as possible.
Irwin's comments come as researchers increasingly warn of a rise in hate speech on Twitter, especially after Musk announced in November that he would pardon all suspended accounts unless they had "atrocious content."
Es wurden Zweifel an der Bereitschaft und Fähigkeit des Unternehmens gäußert, Inhalte zu überarbeiten, als Musk etwa die Hälfte der Twitter-Belegschaft entließ und dem Rest dann die Wahl ließ, lange zu arbeiten oder zu gehen, was Hunderte von Mitarbeitern dazu veranlasst hat, Resigned.
The skepticism has sparked growing concern among advertisers, who are Twitter's biggest revenue generator, about the damage to brand reputation, prompting them to pause advertising on the platform.
In a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday, Musk pledged to significantly promote content editing and protect freedom of expression.
Musk has encouraged the team not to worry about how their actions will affect user numbers or revenue, Irving said, stressing that security is the company's top priority.
According to former employees familiar with the matter, Reuters reported that the security approach Irwin described reflects, at least in part, an acceleration of changes to Twitter's handling of objectionable content that had been planned since last year. In particular, Musk has confirmed more than once that Twitter allows freedom of expression and does not allow free access, which requires some tweets that violate the company's content policy so that they are not deleted, and offensive tweets, but they are allowed in certain places, such as at the bottom of the page. Ex: page, homepage, should not appear and search results.
Twitter has long used "visibility filtering" tools to tackle misinformation, including it in its official abuse policy prior to Musk's acquisition. This approach allows for greater freedom of expression while minimizing the potential harm associated with widely objectionable content.
Although Musk claimed in a tweet last week that "impressions of hate speech" on Twitter had dropped by a third since he took over the company, research by the Center for Digital Hate shows that the number of hate speech on the Twitter platform has increased over the year. . The past decade has increased the same time interval. a period.