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Twitter under fire for reinstating account that posted child sex abuse (www.washingtonpost.com)

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[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 183 points 1 year ago

An important part that seems lost in this:

Yoel Roth, the company’s former head of moderation and safety who resigned in November after Musk’s takeover, posted Wednesday on the Twitter competitor Bluesky that “it’s insane to write ‘we have zero tolerance for child sexual exploitation’ while also arbitrarily reinstating accounts that share” child sexual abuse material.

Roth fled his home late last year after Musk, in tweets to his more than 100 million followers, suggested Roth had encouraged children to access adult material online, a misrepresentation of Roth’s graduate-school writing that exposed him to online harassment and death threats.

“This guy blew up my life by saying I condone pedophilia, and then he turns around and does this,” Roth said on Bluesky.

[-] Laughbone@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago

Holy shit that’s absolutely disgusting.

[-] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Narcissistic pedo, doing narcissistic pedo things, because he’s a narcissistic pedo.

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

And these are the "elite" of our species? We have allowed hell to exist on Earth for far too long.

[-] Marsupial@quokk.au 9 points 1 year ago

Nah these are the elites of our society.

The elites of our species are the athletes and geniuses who do shit that leaves us in awe.

[-] hh93@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

There really needs to be more awareness and actual punishment to prevent stochastic terrorism

Knowing the kind of people that are out there this guy is lucky to be alive after being marked like this...

[-] KingCapitalist@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A hit piece the lemmings will believe without a second thought.

Elon massively expanded CSAM-detection capabilities on Twitter and upped bans for it by 400% since he joined.

Fact - the unbanned user is an anti-pedophile activist who found the censored image on a news site, not knowing its original content, and posted it to solicit donations for the family.

Nothing could be detailed from the picture, but legally you are not allowed to post an image that was originally csam even if you turn it into a black jpeg. Both the original site and he were punished. Elon knew it was an innocent mistake, and in light of the good work he does against grooming in modern America, he unbanned him.

Then WaPo posted a hit article. Is it any coincidence that Washington Post is run by pedophiles?

[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 points 1 year ago

NYT, CNN, Reuters, too? Oh wait, FOX must not have covered it.

[-] Therealgoodjanet@lemmy.world 110 points 1 year ago

So I see it’s going great with an almost non existent CSAM team, who needs them anyway?

Good luck with X buddy, I’m sure advertisers can’t wait to have their ad show next to some good old CSAM material.

But at least conservatives aren’t censored anymore and the democrats were the real groomers anyway, right?

What a dumpster fire… I hope it all burns to the ground. We can live without Twitter just fine.

[-] aquarisces@lemmy.world 83 points 1 year ago

Are people just ignoring the X name change and still calling it Twitter? That’s awesome lol

[-] seesiedler@feddit.de 39 points 1 year ago

Of course. X is dumb… I talked to people being confused, thinking X was supposed to be a placeholder.

[-] dneaves@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Of course. I don't call Facebook Meta, and I don't call Google Alphabet.

You can change your company's name, or nest it in a shell, people still know who you are

[-] hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 year ago

Google and Facebook weren't rebranded. Twitter was.

[-] Kid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

That’s not the same thing.

[-] hh93@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

On their case the name change was only for the company not for the product

[-] GeekyNerdyNerd@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 year ago

I can't wait for musk to be arrested for distribution of CSAM because of his shitty moderation policy decisions because that's clearly what he wants to happen.

[-] StealthToad@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

The guy calls so many others pedos, what’s the likelihood he’s projecting?

[-] SamC@lemmy.nz 15 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure what makes you think the law applies to billionaires

[-] jocanib@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

Every right-wing accusation is a confession.

[-] PagingDoctorLove@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Elon Musk is just another gross white man who wants a manic pixie dream girl, minus the dreams. It's no surprise that he doesn't see a problem with this. He's a textbook predator, and the whole situation with Grimes made that abundantly clear.

I hope his next venture is selling guided tours in unregulated deep sea subs.

[-] z00s@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I'm out of the loop; what part of the Grimes thing was predatory?

[-] xodoh74984@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

X gon' give it to ya

[-] BROOT@lemm.ee 27 points 1 year ago

I don’t think anyone really wants what X gon’ give to them.

[-] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 year ago

Now we can add "support for CP" as one of the things Muskrat did. Cool.

[-] Piecemakers3Dprints@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Hey. Muskrats are cool. Don't do them so wrong by adding Fuckstick McBackbirth to their grouping.

[-] housepanther@lemmy.goblackcat.com 18 points 1 year ago

I am guessing that Musk doesn't give a shit. The guy has so much money that he's impervious to criticism.

[-] ConditionOverload@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

He's not impervious to criticism, he just thinks that he is. Massive negative press following massive negative press about his handling of the company and the loss of revenue is not going to make his shareholders happy, which is really what all he'd care about.

[-] ashok36@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

For Twitter at least, he doesn't have shareholders. He has investors, many of whom would like nothing more than for Twitter to die so that their citizens can't use it to coordinate political action against their regime.

[-] whatsarefoogee@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Only 7.1 billion out of 44 billion is from outside investments. The remaining ~36 billion was paid by Musk.

People need to stop with the conspiracies. Musk isn't playing 4d chess by tanking Twitter, he's just an idiot.

[-] dragontamer@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

33 Billion was equity. $13 Billion was loans.

Musk's contribution is close to $25 Billion and likely puts him at 60%+ majority control of shares.

[-] TommySalami@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

can't use it to coordinate political action against their regime.

That ship sailed a while back when Elon was forced to buy Twitter. Let it burn.

[-] baked_tea@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

What's the point of their investments then?

[-] UlrikHD@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Control over one of the biggest "news" sites in the world probably.

[-] sci@feddit.nl 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

3 of the main investors of musk's twitter are Marc Andreessen, Changpeng Zhao (ceo of binance) and Prince Al Waleed (saudi royalty).

[-] dragontamer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Elon Musk is the biggest shareholder of Twitter and Tesla.

[-] hermitix_world@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Biggest idiot of both as well.

[-] hark@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

He can pay to surround himself with yes-men all he wants, but that just makes any criticism that reaches him sting more. You can see it in action by the petty moves he makes against people and things he doesn't like.

[-] Prior_Industry@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Elon is as a Elon does

[-] db2@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago

Children 😬

[-] Prior_Industry@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah it ain't right mate. But then this is expected behaviour from Musk.

[-] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago

And this is who Spez idolizes ...

[-] Eh_I@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I thought that X was a brand of CP.

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