Musk brings back Twitter Blue with new features to prevent impersonation - Ars Technica
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Advertisers may not be so easily persuaded back to the platform, however. While Musk has been moving to convince advertisers that Twitter is a safe place to run ads, today three members of Twitter’s Trust and Safety Council—Eirliani Abdul Rahman, Anne Collier, and Lesley Podesta—resigned. Their letter said, “contrary to claims by Elon Musk, the safety and wellbeing of Twitter’s users are on the decline.” They pointed to reported spikes in hate speech, Musk’s reinstatement of banned accounts, and the decline in content moderation staff as reasons to distance themselves from the platform.
“A Twitter ruled by diktat is not a place for us,” their letter states, while claiming that Musk has not acknowledged the council—which in 2019 included more than 40 experts and organizations—since he took over.
Twitter couldn't immediately be reached for comment. According to Reuters, Musk told advertisers that he might be addressing at least one of the exiting council members’ chief complaints: how content moderation teams are currently staffed.
A Twitter insider told Reuters that on Thursday, a Twitter representative told advertisers that “the platform was considering bringing its content moderators, many of whom are contracted through third-party vendors, in-house.”
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/twitter-blue-is-coming-back-with-more-colors-and-assurances-from-musk/
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