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(The Guardian) Civil liberties groups: Musk 'reneged' on content moderation promises
Leaders of two civil liberties groups who sat with Elon Musk earlier this week say he has gone back on the commitments he made in the meeting.
On a Friday call in which advocacy groups urged brands to pull advertising from Twitter in response to mass employee layoffs, Color of Change president Rashad Robinson and Free Press co-chief executive Jessica González said they left their conversation with Musk believing he was genuine in his commitment to be transparent about content moderation policy changes as well as to keep election integrity policies in place. But Robinson and González both say his actions have betrayed his words. Specifically, González said Musk assured the advocacy groups, including the Anti-Defamation League and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, that those responsible for election moderation would regain access to the proper tools by Friday.
González said: Today’s Friday. And instead a lot of those people are gone. So I don’t have a lot of confidence that we can trust what he says. We’re escalating our call to advertisers because he’s shown in the past few days that he’s not gonna live up to his promises. These cuts alone indicate that he cannot moderate content.
Robinson countered Musk’s assertion that advertisers were pulling out because of group activism: The impulse control of this chief executive is simply not at the level that any advertiser should trust with their brand. Elon Musk is the reason why these companies are making this choice. We are simply helping to expose, shine a light and provide an opportunity.
Media Matters president Angelo Carusone said Musk’s claim that advertisers pulling out was akin to an attack on free speech was a dangerous precedent: He’s signaling to [brands] that... he will use the Twitter platform and megaphone that he had and direct the same ire that a lot of the individuals on this call demonstrated they’re concerned about toward those companies.
Leaders of two civil liberties groups who sat with Elon Musk earlier this week say he has gone back on the commitments he made in the meeting.
On a Friday call in which advocacy groups urged brands to pull advertising from Twitter in response to mass employee layoffs, Color of Change president Rashad Robinson and Free Press co-chief executive Jessica González said they left their conversation with Musk believing he was genuine in his commitment to be transparent about content moderation policy changes as well as to keep election integrity policies in place. But Robinson and González both say his actions have betrayed his words. Specifically, González said Musk assured the advocacy groups, including the Anti-Defamation League and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, that those responsible for election moderation would regain access to the proper tools by Friday.
González said: Today’s Friday. And instead a lot of those people are gone. So I don’t have a lot of confidence that we can trust what he says. We’re escalating our call to advertisers because he’s shown in the past few days that he’s not gonna live up to his promises. These cuts alone indicate that he cannot moderate content.
Robinson countered Musk’s assertion that advertisers were pulling out because of group activism: The impulse control of this chief executive is simply not at the level that any advertiser should trust with their brand. Elon Musk is the reason why these companies are making this choice. We are simply helping to expose, shine a light and provide an opportunity.
Media Matters president Angelo Carusone said Musk’s claim that advertisers pulling out was akin to an attack on free speech was a dangerous precedent: He’s signaling to [brands] that... he will use the Twitter platform and megaphone that he had and direct the same ire that a lot of the individuals on this call demonstrated they’re concerned about toward those companies.
