A really great read in @atrupar’s Public Notice about gutting the Twitter election team. Thor Benson talks with Yoel Roth—half of that team—about its inevitable erosion to democracy in the U.S.
“Lessons that the company learned robustly after 2016 are no longer part of its playbook for dealing with elections. That’s a major risk going forward.”
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/yoel-roth-interview-twitter-elon-musk-elections
#Elections #America #Propaganda #Fascism #PublicNotice #News #YoelRoth
I saw the video of #yoelroth at #code2023 ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9XoUUYeZD8&pp=ygUJeW9lbCByb3Ro
...followed by #x #ceo #LindaYaccarino at Code '23.
...and all I can say is that she seems evasive, if not detached, from reality.
She was repeatedly asked by an interviewer she initially addressed as a long time friend to provide a REALLY common, standard metric for social media usage, and waffled on it. She wants people to deny factual data, studies, and their own experience with hate and censorship on X.
Total gaslighting.
#TwitterDown #ElonMusk #YoelRoth #cyberterrorism
*WATCH(16min)
MSNBC:
'Elon Musk tried to intimidate me into silence.' Former Twitter exec speaks out
"Twitter’s former Head of Trust and Safety Yoel Roth resigned just weeks after Elon Musk took over the platform, citing his disagreements with its new policies. Soon after, Musk attacked Roth online and led his army of internet trolls in a smear campaign that spread like wildfire. Yoel Roth joins Meh..."
https://www.msnbc.com/mehdi-on-msnbc/watch/-elon-musk-tried-to-intimidate-me-into-silence-former-twitter-exec-speaks-out-194011205753
Slate Political Gabfest featured #Twitter former #TwitterTrustAndSafety head #YoelRoth talking about the ugly turn X may take if it is allowed to become a "fringe platform" . Roth says 60% of advertisers have left. Audio ID cued up to the part https://pca.st/podcast/c300f540-0c22-012e-fb2d-00163e1b201c
#TwitterDown #ElonMusk #YoelRoth
"In his essay, Roth revealed that he had to 'upend [his] family, go into hiding for months and repeatedly move' while he urged platforms to tackle violent content, harassment and misinformation head-on."
HuffPost:
Ex-Twitter Exec Uprooted Family And Lived With Armed Guards After Trump, Musk Attacks
"Yoel Roth, the former head of Twitter's trust and safety division, detailed the harassment he'd faced in an essay for The New York Times."
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ex-twitter-executive-hiding-armed-guards-trump-musk-attacks_n_6508a096e4b0fa756c76845c
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Former head of #Twitter's Trust and Security, #YoelRoth, tells the story how #TFG and #Elmo ended his normal life:
"Backed by fans...#Trump publicly attacked me. Two years later, following his acquisition of Twitter and after I resigned my role as the company’s head of trust and safety, #ElonMusk added fuel to the fire. I’ve lived with armed guards outside my home and have had to upend my family, go into hiding for months and repeatedly move."
https://archive.is/fezfi#selection-467.0-471.202
*now "#X"
i really do not care what #YoelRoth has to say about content moderation, and I honestly have a difficult time feeling much sympathy for what happened with him via the alt right billionaire.
bit of a “leopards eating peoples faces party” situation IMO, after the level of fascist harassment that happened on his watch.
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.
“This guy blew up my life by saying I condone pedophilia, and then he turns around and does this,” Roth said on Bluesky.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/27/twitter-csam-dom-lucre-elon-musk/
Twitterin ex-turvallisuuspäällikkö #YoelRoth: ”tämä ei ole edes ensimmäinen kerta, kun he ovat rikkoneet sivuston täysin tunaroimalla alustan nopeusrajoittimen (rate limiter) kanssa.
”Siihen on syynsä, että rajoitin oli yksi Twitterin tiukimmin vartioituja sisäisiä työkaluja. Nopeusrajoituksilla säätäminen on luultavasti helpoin tapa rikkoa #Twitter”.
Rajoittimen tarkoitus on säädellä sitä, kuinka monta kutsua palvelin käsittelee tietyn ajan sisällä.
@mmasnick #TwitterHearing revealed prejudice vs. Trump White House. #YoelRoth admitted to comparing White House to Nazis, something he now regrets. B/c most of #Twitter employees were connected w/ S.F., it makes sense moderators would consciously/unconsciously favor liberal or Dem accounts. It’s not illegal or immoral to hire lots of liberals or young ppl (who tend to be liberal), but social cohesion is affected when those employees can tilt *nat’l* political discussions.
@lauren
When we told the advertisers they needed to be worried about #brandsafety many of them listened. Some rolled the dice, now it's the same for all companies on Twitter.
Yesterday I talked to @TheBradBlog about the harm #Musk is causing & what we can do about it.
I focused on actions & pressure campaigns to reduce harm at #twitter & the #LGBTQ folks attacked by #ElonMusk, like former #TrustAndSafety head #yoelroth.
The #thefowlsite is #notsafe
FULL STORY
https://bradblog.com/?p=14498
@edwardchampion I talked about #yoelroth and the attacks on #LGBTQ folks today with @TheBradBlog about the harm #Musk is causing & what we can do about it.
The dissolving of the #TrustAndSafety committee is just part of they way he's making #Twitter unsafe.
https://bradblog.com/?p=14498
I talked to @TheBradBlog today about the harm #Musk is causing & what we can do about it.
https://bradblog.com/?p=14498
I talked about what I learned from
@Esqueer about how #ElonMusk attacks #LGBTQ folks & how #elon makes promises about #brandsafety he doesn't deliver.
We need to keep pressuring #Apple & report to the #EU (even before the regs are in place.)
Musk's #Twitter Takeover Turns from Dumb to Dangerous: #BradCast #birdsite #thefowlsite #yoelroth #contentmoderation
@BruceMirken I talked to @TheBradBlog today about the harm #Musk is causing & what we can do about it.
I focused on actions & pressure campaigns to reduce harm at #twitter & the #LGBTQ folks attacked by #ElonMusk, like former #TrustAndSafety head #yoelroth.
The #thefowlsite is #notsafe for humans or #brands
h/t @Esqueer
Musk's Twitter Takeover Turns from Dumb to Dangerous: Today's #BradCast
Guest: Media activist/former Musk trainer @spocko
FULL STORY LISTEN:
https://bradblog.com/?p=14498
For those of you who are uninformed about just how awful Yoel Roth is, and why him getting fired is the LEAST controversial story coming out Twitter, educate yourselves.
https://mrjarvis.substack.com/p/twitter-suicide-troller-justifies
