{"id":504746,"date":"2022-10-29T12:57:46","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T09:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/musk-moves-quickly-to-remodel-twitter\/"},"modified":"2022-10-29T12:57:46","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T09:57:46","slug":"musk-moves-quickly-to-remodel-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/musk-moves-quickly-to-remodel-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"#Musk moves quickly to remodel Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a23e84514c45\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" 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href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/musk-moves-quickly-to-remodel-twitter\/#Musk_moves_quickly_to_remodel_Twitter\" >Musk moves quickly to remodel Twitter<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Musk_moves_quickly_to_remodel_Twitter\"><\/span>Musk moves quickly to remodel Twitter<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/illustration_muskelon_102822mm-ap-see-credits_musk-remodel.png?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Elon Musk wasted no time\u00a0beginning\u00a0to remodel <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> after closing his deal\u00a0to acquire the company\u00a0Thursday night,\u00a0quickly\u00a0cutting key staff, doubling down on plans to lift lifelong bans and previewing plans for a council to determine content decisions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The changes\u00a0he\u2019s made so far\u00a0confirmed suspicions critics had about the direction the billionaire space and auto executive, known for being a Twitter troll himself, would take the company in, and are adding fuel to the chorus of critics worried Musk\u2019s reign at Twitter will allow misinformation and hate speech to thrive on the platform.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Musk\u2019s decision to take Twitter private will also allow him to transform the platform \u2014 including its content moderation policies and financial priorities \u2014 with less oversight from regulators and without having to publicly disclose updates every few months to show how the company is performing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Musk made a nod to changes to come at Twitter in his typical style\u00a0shortly after taking control of the company, tweeting Thursday night \u201cthe bird is free.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Among the first changes\u00a0he\u00a0made\u00a0were\u00a0immediate\u00a0cuts\u00a0of\u00a0top Twitter executives.<\/p>\n<p>Musk\u00a0reportedly fired CEO Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal and chief legal counsel Vijaya Gadde, letting them go with a hefty payout of around $187 million,\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/10\/28\/tech\/elon-musk-twitter-golden-parachutes\/index.html\">CNN reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Barrett, deputy director of the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights, said he is most concerned about Musk\u2019s decision to fire Gadde, a senior executive Barrett said was \u201ctrying, however imperfectly, to keep the platform from spreading even more harmful content than it does.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Barrett said he is concerned that \u201cin the name of \u2018free speech\u2019\u201d Musk is going to \u201cturn back the clock\u201d to make Twitter into a \u201cmore potent engine of hatred, divisiveness, and misinformation about elections, public health policy, and international affairs.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cThis is not going to be pretty,\u201d Barrett said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Musk tweeted Friday afternoon that Twitter will be forming a \u201ccontent moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints.\u201d He said that \u201cno major content decisions or account reinstatements will h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>en before that council convenes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Bloomberg reported, citing an anonymous source, that Musk doesn\u2019t believe in lifelong bans. Musk\u00a0previously said\u00a0he would reverse the permanent ban Twitter imposed on former President Trump\u2019s account last year.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>It is not clear yet to what extent the proposed council will factor into decisions\u00a0of that kind. For example, Meta\u2019s Oversight Board is able to make binding decisions regarding content on the site but the tech giant is able to choose whether to accept its Oversight Board\u2019s recommendations on policy changes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Musk hinted that more changes to\u00a0the status of accounts banned\u00a0under previous leadership are to\u00a0come in the early days\u00a0of\u00a0his\u00a0leadership. In response to a right-wing influencer who said they were still \u201cshadowbanned\u201d after one day of Musk owning the site, the new self-described \u201cChief Twit\u201d said he \u201cwill be digging in more today.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trump seems poised to gain access to his account again under Musk\u2019s ownership, as Musk indicated he would earlier this year. At that time, the Tesla CEO called the decision to ban Trump\u00a0a \u201cmorally bad decision\u201d and \u201cfoolish.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Twitter took the unprecedented step to ban a U.S. president after ruling that Trump violated\u00a0the platform\u2019s\u00a0policy on incitement of violence\u00a0with\u00a0posts\u00a0he made\u00a0about the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The former president cheered Musk\u2019s takeover of Twitter, but\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/politics\/trump-to-stay-on-his-truth-social-amid-elon-musk-twitter-takeover\">told Fox News<\/a>\u00a0he would be staying on Truth Social.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like it better, I like the way it works. I like Elon, but I\u2019m staying on Truth,\u201d Trump said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But joining Twitter again, if\u00a0he is\u00a0allowed\u00a0to, would give Trump access to a wider audience ahead of a potential 2024 run. Truth Social received roughly 9 million visits in August, versus Twitter\u2019s 6.8 billion the same month, according to data from SimilarWeb.<\/p>\n<p>Other conservative figures have also welcomed the takeover\u00a0by Musk, whose plan to run Twitter with a more relaxed approach to content moderation \u2014 including by not issuing lifetime bans \u2014 is more in line with the vision Republicans have been urging platforms to take.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, tweeted, \u201cFree speech. Liberal tears.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), who has had her personal account banned from the platform\u00a0for posting COVID-19 misinformation, wrote \u201cFREEDOM OF SPEECH!!!!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Moves to ease moderation\u00a0pose a threat\u00a0of\u00a0increasing the spread of hate speech and misinformation,\u00a0however,\u00a0according to experts and advocacy groups that warned against Musk\u2019s takeover of Twitter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of sealing the deal officially, Musk seemingly tried to quell some\u00a0of those concerns\u00a0as\u00a0they\u00a0relate to\u00a0potential drops in\u00a0advertising revenue, posting a public message to advertisers on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>He said Twitter \u201ccannot become a free-for-all hellscape, where anything can be said with no consequences!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Advocacy groups, however, are still sounding the alarm that\u00a0the changes Musk has started making to the platform\u00a0could lead to more hate online, especially for marginalized communities.\u00a0Racist and antisemitic tweets already started to spread quickly on Twitter after Musk\u2019s takeover, including some using slurs in posts celebrating Musk\u2019s ownership,\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2022\/10\/28\/musk-twitter-racist-posts\">The Washington Post reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy purchasing Twitter, Elon Musk is poised to reopen the floodgates of widespread harassment and threats of violence, especially against Black women, women of color, and transgender people,\u201d Bridget Todd, communications director of the feminist group UltraViolet said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If Musk abandons Twitter\u2019s community standards, it could provide a \u201cslippery slope\u201d and set a precedent for other platforms to follow, Todd said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>A potential increase in the spread of misinformation, especially if figures previously banned for such action regain access to their accounts \u2014 on Twitter or other sites that may follow its lead \u2014 could also impact coming election cycles, critics warn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith Elon Musk at the helm of Twitter just two weeks from the midterm elections, it\u2019s likely the worst is yet to come,\u201d Todd added.\n<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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