Elon Cleaning House

Pretty Much Every Expert Agrees That Elon Has Made Twitter’s Child Sexual Abuse Problem Worse

About a month ago, we wrote an article pulling together a variety of sources, including an NBC News investigation, that suggested that Elon Musk’s Twitter was doing a terrible job dealing with child sexual abuse material (CSAM) on the platform. This was contrary to the claims of a few very vocal Elon supporters, including one who somehow got an evidence-free article published in a major news publication, insisting that he had magically “solved” the CSAM issue, despite firing most of the people who worked on it. As we noted last month, it actually appeared that Elon’s Twitter was not just failing to deal with CSAM (which is a massive challenge on any platform), but that he was actually going backwards and making the issue much, much worse.

Last week, Senator Dick Durbin released a letter he sent to the Attorney General, asking the DOJ to investigate Twitter’s failures at stopping CSAM.

I write to express my grave concern that Twitter is failing to prevent the selling and trading of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) on its platform and to urge the Department of Justice (DOJ) to take all appropriate actions to investigate, deter, and stop this activity, which has no protections under the First Amendment, and violates federal criminal law.


The last two points are important: CSAM is (obviously) not protected speech, and as it violates federal criminal law, Section 230 is not relevant (lots of 230 haters seem to forget this important point). Of course, there is still the issue of knowledge. You still can’t hold a platform liable for things it didn’t know about. But, deliberately turning a blind eye to CSAM (while stating publicly that it was the number one priority) is still really bad.

 

This is pretty funny. Elon fired what been described as one of the company’s best software engineers for telling him that his “engagements” on Twitter have plummeted. Elon said I have 100M followers but only a couple thousands engagements. What is wrong?

“Umm no one is interested in you anymore”

‘You’re Fired!’ Elon Musk Reportedly Sacked One of the Last Top Twitter Engineers For Accurately Explaining Why His Engagement is Plummeting

 

But the oversight hearings on social media focused on hunter biden laptop twitter and yielded nothing. No CSAM, all Hunter, all day

 

Stick a fork in him.

 

He’s losing it. Spiraling

 

Not disagreeing with that article one way or the other, but seems based upon undercover reports and arrests that CSAM is prevalent on other social media platforms. A lot of that seems to be people sharing it in private messages or in groups. Perhaps Twitter is worse but seems like Twitter gets a disproportionate amount of the scrutiny - from people accusing previous ownership and management of doing nothing to people debating what Musk has or hasn't done following his pledge to make it a top priority.

 

I follow him but almost never search out his posts. My view of him has largely gone from a quirky guy who thinks outside of the box to a troll and bully who's not saying much that interesting. Wouldn't surprise me if people are engaging his posts less.

 

Way to go Elon. Protecting the world from Gator updates from our very own Nick.

https://www.gatorcountry.com/swampgas/threads/new-twitter.572873/

 

Starting to give off Howard Hughes vibes.

 

It gets worse in terms of mania

 

His cousin works there ? Good grief assholery runs in the family.

 

Man this is just embarrassing. I wonder if Taibbi and Bari Weiss are feeling any regret for doing his bidding?

 

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These people! Soulless dbag bully, needs not to be walking around.

 

What a vile human being. Anybody who defends or expresses admiration for that human shaped pile of excrement has forfeited any respect I might have ever had for them.

 

His brother's restaurant in Ft. Collins shut down

ND streetBar in Fort Collins closes its doors after 8 years in Old Town

 

Elon is so brilliant in how he is encouraging them to continue to give his company money and not pushing them away.

Twitter's blue ticks disappear as Musk attacks NY Times

The New York Times, along with several other organisations and celebrities, said they would not pay for the tick.

It prompted Elon Musk to launch a volley of insults at the newspaper.

"The real tragedy of @NYTimes is that their propaganda isn't even interesting", Mr Musk, who owns Twitter, wrote on the platform.

"Also, their feed is the Twitter equivalent of diarrhea. It's unreadable," he added.