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Twitter’s Surge in Harmful Content a Barrier to Advertiser Return
20Jul By adminNo Comments
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Twitter’s Surge in Harmful Content a Barrier to Advertiser Return

[ad_1] Elon Musk's Twitter acquisition, and the series of content policy changes that ensued, has led to a dramatic spike in hateful, violent and inaccurate posts on the platform, according to researchers. That's now the top challenge for Twitter's new Chief Executive Officer Linda Yaccarino, who has to address advertisers' concerns about the trend in order to boost revenue and pay back the company's debts. Musk and Yaccarino have touted updates to the site's policies, such as letting advertisers prevent their posts from showing up next to certain kinds of content. Still, advertising sales are down by half since Musk took control of the company in October, he said this week. That's in part because businesses don't believe there has been significant progress in resolving the problem. “M...
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Elon Musk’s new Twitter rules expose election offices to spoof accounts
7May By adminNo Comments
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Elon Musk’s new Twitter rules expose election offices to spoof accounts

[ad_1] Tracking down accurate information about Philadelphia's elections on Twitter used to be easy. The account for the city commissioners who run elections, @phillyvotes, was the only one carrying a blue check mark, a sign of authenticity.But ever since the social media platform overhauled its verification service last month, the check mark has disappeared. That's made it harder to distinguish @phillyvotes from a list of random accounts not run by the elections office but with very similar names. The election commission applied weeks ago for a gray check mark — Twitter's new symbol to help users identify official government accounts – but has yet to hear back from the Twitter, commission spokesman Nick Custodio said. It's unclear whether @phillyvotes is an eligible government account ...
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Elon Musk reveals updated Twitter rules, says they will evolve over time.
8Nov By adminNo Comments
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Elon Musk reveals updated Twitter rules, says they will evolve over time.

[ad_1] Though the guidelines have largely stayed the same as earlier there seems to be one addition - 'Misleading and Deceptive Identities', which comes under the 'Authenticity' section. Twitter's new CEO Elon Musk, on Monday, shared the new set of rules for the micro-blogging platform while emphasizing that they "will evolve over time."In the wake of the company's USD 44 billion acquisition by Musk, the Tesla CEO took to Twitter and posted a link to Twitter's new rules. "Twitter rules will evolve over time, but they're currently the following," read the text accompanying the link. Though the guidelines have largely stayed the same as earlier there seems to be one addition - 'Misleading and Deceptive Identities', which comes under the 'Authenticity' section. It states, "You may not im...
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Elon Musk launches crackdown against some Twitter handles
7Nov By adminNo Comments
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Elon Musk launches crackdown against some Twitter handles

[ad_1] Elon Musk said that any Twitter handles that are found engaged in 'impersonation' without clearly specifying "parody" will be suspended. Elon Musk on Sunday said through a series of tweets that any Twitter handles found engaged in 'impersonation' without clearly specifying "parody" will be suspended permanently. "Going forward, any Twitter handles engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying "parody" will be permanently suspended," Musk tweeted. Twitter's new CEO further said that unlike before, no warning will be given now as widespread verification is being rolled out. "Previously, we issued a warning before the suspension, but now that we are rolling out widespread verification, there will be no warning. This will be clearly identified as a condition for signi...
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Anatomy of the week the Elon Musk tornado hit Twitter
7Nov By adminNo Comments
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Anatomy of the week the Elon Musk tornado hit Twitter

[ad_1] The whirlwind week that Elon Musk took over Twitter began with sleepless nights for company engineers -- and ended with half the staff getting the axe. The whirlwind week that Elon Musk took over Twitter began with sleepless nights for company engineers -- and ended with half the staff getting the axe. "It was a strange week," said one former employee speaking on condition of anonymity. "Executives were getting fired or were resigning, but there was basically no official communication until 5 pm Thursday," some seven days after the deal was made official. The employees received a first email Thursday informing them that they would know their fate the next day. On Friday, the second email confirmed the rumors: 50 percent of the staff lost their jobs. The cull hit the mar...
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India cracks whip against Twitter, Facebook, others over contentious posts, notifies rules
28Oct By adminNo Comments
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India cracks whip against Twitter, Facebook, others over contentious posts, notifies rules

[ad_1] In a big development today, India has notified rules under which it will set up 3-member Grievance Appellate Committee(s), which will redress grievances of users against decisions made by social media platforms including Twitter and Facebook over contentious content on their platforms. These will be set up within a three-month period, according to a gazette notification issued by MeitY (Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology). Interestingly, this comes on the day that Indian origin Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal was sacked by the new owner, billionaire Elon Musk.In its reaction, digital rights advocacy group Internet Freedom Foundation in a tweet said: "The notified Amendment Rules cause injury to the digital rights of every Indian social media user." The content that the...
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