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Mike Masnick
@mmasnick
I see the "verification" system is going juuuuuuuuuuuust great.

Foggy wrote: ↑Wed Nov 09, 2022 7:47 pm Eight-dollar fake Rudy said something rude about Sarah.

I'm out. Musk's anti-woke social experiment is both naïve and dangerous. Twitter is just a platform. We the participants make it work and we can leave at any time.

My new home will be on #CounterSocial (aka CoSo.) The cats and I hope to see you there.
counter.social/@jjmacnab

Ben-Prime wrote: ↑Wed Nov 09, 2022 4:01 pm At some point, you have to wonder if he intends to just kamikaze the damn thing into the ground just so he can build something fresh in the new market which arises after Twitter has died.

John Thomas8 wrote: ↑Thu Nov 10, 2022 7:23 pm In an insignificant but entertaining side show of this Twitter mess, sportsballers and sportsballer media members are getting their nic hijacked and intensely stupid tweets are being made in their names.

Musk is an actual ox.

much ado wrote: ↑Thu Nov 10, 2022 7:50 pm For what it's worth (not much), I terminated my Twitter account. I don't think I ever made a Tweet.

Twitter’s content moderation head quits as departures alarm the FTC
Yoel Roth had become the public face of Twitter’s efforts to reassure users and advertisers the service would not become a ‘free-for-all’

SAN FRANCISCO — Several top executives resigned from Twitter on Thursday, some of whom cited fears over the risks from Elon Musk’s leadership in a stunning exodus that prompted federal regulators to warn they might step in.

One of the most surprising was the company’s head of moderation and safety, Yoel Roth, who had become the public face of the company’s efforts to reassure users and advertisers that Twitter would not descend into a “free-for-all.” On Wednesday, he appeared on a Twitter Spaces public meeting to defend the company to advertisers alongside Musk.

Roth’s was one of a number of resignations including Chief Information Security Officer Lea Kissner, the company’s chief privacy officer and its chief compliance officer, according to people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive internal matters. Several other members of the site’s privacy and security unit also had resigned and those remaining were trying to stop a wave of abuse in the company’s expanded paid service, Twitter Blue, according to those people.

The privacy departures prompted a rare warning from the Federal Trade Commission, which has emerged as the government’s top Silicon Valley watchdog. It marked the second time in two days that a federal official has expressed concern about the chaotic developments at the company, coming less than 24 hours after President Biden said Musk’s relationships with other countries deserved scrutiny.

The agency said that it was “tracking the developments at Twitter with deep concern” and that it was prepared to take action to ensure the company was complying with a settlement known as a consent order, which requires Twitter to comply with certain privacy and security requirements because of allegations of past data misuse. Three of the resignations Thursday were by members of a data governance committee established in the FTC deal, according to a former employee who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal matters.