(The Guardian) Report: Musk fires Twitter curation team tackling misinformation
There’s as-yet unverified speculation that Elon Musk has fired Twitter’s curation team, which is responsible for countering misinformation posted to the social media network.
The claim comes (on Twitter, naturally) from Richie Assaly, a digital producer for the Toronto Star, who says he previously worked as a member of the curation team.
Assaly says team “leads, management and curators are all posting that they’ve been fired”. The move, if true, “will make Twitter noisier, more dangerous & less interesting”, he asserts.
Musk, in his tweet blaming “activist groups” for pressuring advertisers to withdraw from Twitter, causing a “massive” drop in revenue, insisted: “nothing has changed with content moderation”.
There’s as-yet unverified speculation that Elon Musk has fired Twitter’s curation team, which is responsible for countering misinformation posted to the social media network.
The claim comes (on Twitter, naturally) from Richie Assaly, a digital producer for the Toronto Star, who says he previously worked as a member of the curation team.
Assaly says team “leads, management and curators are all posting that they’ve been fired”. The move, if true, “will make Twitter noisier, more dangerous & less interesting”, he asserts.
Musk, in his tweet blaming “activist groups” for pressuring advertisers to withdraw from Twitter, causing a “massive” drop in revenue, insisted: “nothing has changed with content moderation”.
