According to the source, the company will rely on automation to moderate content and give up some manual controls. At the same time, preference will be given distribution restriction, not removal some expressions.

Details of the new rules

Ella Irwin, Twitter’s Chief Trust and Security Officer, says this will primarily be done through: Enhanced control of search results for hashtags that may incite hatred. According to a Twitter representative, the team “has full mandate to act as quickly and aggressively as possible.”

The social network will use one of the approaches formulated as: “Freedom of expression, not freedom of access.” It effectively enforces certain tweets that violate company policy to be kept, but banned from search and feed.

Twitter has long used such “visibility filtering” tools to deal with misinformation, adding them to its official hate speech moderation policy even before the buyout deal. This approach provides greater freedom of expression while reducing the potential harm associated with viral offensive content.

As for child safety, Irwin says:Twitter Takes Action to Automatically Remove Tweets Reported by Trustees Experienced in Detecting Malicious Posts“.

All these comments arose against the background of growing dissatisfaction with Musk’s decision to unblock multiple pages that were restricted for various violations. Meanwhile, on Friday, December 2, Musk promised Significant strengthening of content control and protection of freedom of expression in meeting with Emmanuel Macron. According to the French president, Musk confirmed that Twitter is attending the Christchurch Call summit, which aims to prevent the use of social media to organize and promote terrorism and extremism. In addition, the new owner of the social network has pledged to cooperate with the EU to improve the protection of children on the Internet.

Interestingly, some of Ella Irwin’s remarks appear to be an attempt to launder Musk’s reputation. Recently, former Twitter attorney Damien Kieran said that the new administration’s only priority for users is not creating a safe environment for them, but how to monetize them, and today he is already a spokesperson for the company “Musk said security is the company’s top priority, encouraging the team to worry less about how their actions will impact user growth or revenue.“.

He emphasizes this every day, several times a day,
said.