{"id":23957,"date":"2022-12-16T10:31:36","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T10:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/12\/16\/elon-musks-twitter-files-are-an-exercise-in-hypocrisy\/"},"modified":"2022-12-16T10:31:36","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T10:31:36","slug":"elon-musks-twitter-files-are-an-exercise-in-hypocrisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/12\/16\/elon-musks-twitter-files-are-an-exercise-in-hypocrisy\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s \u201cTwitter files\u201d are an exercise in hypocrisy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/go.fiverr.com\/visit\/?bta=1052423&nci=17043\" Target=\"_Top\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/wp-content\/themes\/breek\/assets\/images\/transparent.gif\" data-lazy=\"true\" data-src=\"https:\/\/fiverr.ck-cdn.com\/tn\/serve\/?cid=40081059\"  width=\"601\" height=\"201\"><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"wpds-c-grBDNq hide-for-print mb-sm undefined\">\n<div class=\"PJLV PJLV-iAjpuP-css flex items-center\" config=\"[object Object]\" data-qa=\"article-actions\">\n<div class=\"wpds-c-fLphcs\">\n<div class=\"wpds-c-jmLDag wpds-c-jmLDag-bywHgD-variant-primary wpds-c-jmLDag-biynoz-density-compact wpds-c-jmLDag-hZSyid-isOutline-true wpds-c-jmLDag-ejCoEP-icon-left wpds-c-jmLDag-futxca-cv wpds-c-jmLDag-iknmtxO-css\"><button aria-label=\"Comment\" class=\"PJLV PJLV-iPnDcc-css\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewbox=\"0 0 16 16\" fill=\"currentColor\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" role=\"img\" class=\"wpds-c-kKAfCG wpds-c-efqEZa focus-highlight flex items-center justify-center brad-lg pointer transition-400 ease-in-out transition-colors\" aria-label=\"Comment on this story\"><title>Comment on this story<\/title><path d=\"M14 14V2H2v9.47h8.18L12.43 13ZM3 10.52V3h10v9.23l-2.5-1.66Z\"\/><\/svg><\/button><\/p>\n<p>Comment<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"teaser-content grid-center\">\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">Over the past two weeks, a group of writers chosen by Elon Musk to review<b> <\/b>Twitter\u2019s previously confidential internal messages have painted a picture in which a handful of unaccountable \u201ctrust and safety\u201d executives made critical decisions about online political speech based partly on their own left-leaning intuitions. The \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2022\/12\/03\/elon-musk-twitter-files\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter files<\/a>\u201d show the company\u2019s former leaders, pre-Musk, at times changing or reinterpreting the company\u2019s rules on the fly as they scrambled to react to election misinformation, covid-19 skepticism, and the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">But there\u2019s a glaring irony at the project\u2019s core that its authors never acknowledge. If a lack of transparency, accountability, or consistency in the processes by which tech giants make far-reaching content moderation decisions is cause for alarm \u2014 and it should be \u2014 then there is no more egregious example than the one Musk himself has set since buying Twitter for $44 billion in October.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">This week alone, Musk \u2014 who billed himself as a \u201cfree-speech absolutist\u201d \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2022\/12\/14\/elonjet-twitter-suspension-jack-sweeney-talks\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">permanently banned an account<\/a> that had been tweeting public data about his private jet, creating a new, ad hoc policy to justify the move. Twitter then began suspending numerous other accounts, including that of rival social network Mastodon and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/media\/2022\/12\/15\/twitter-journalists-suspended-musk\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">those of several journalists<\/a> who had criticized the previous suspensions, all without immediate<b> <\/b>explanation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">As social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and TikTok have become dominant conduits of news and political debate, their role in shaping the contours of that debate has become contentious. Democratic leaders worry about how their algorithms may fuel extremism and conspiracy theories and call on them to rein in bigoted speech or viral falsehoods. Leading Republicans contend that they\u2019re restricting Americans\u2019 speech freedoms.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">Both sides have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2021\/10\/12\/congress-regulate-facebook-algorithm\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">introduced legislation<\/a> to curb these perceived wrongs, and two GOP-led states have passed sweeping regulations that will be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2022\/09\/21\/florida-social-media-supreme-court-scotus\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reviewed by the Supreme Court<\/a>. Leaders from both parties are also pressuring the major platforms on whether to reinstate former president Donald Trump, as Musk recently did at Twitter, or to extend his suspension as he ramps up his next presidential run.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">Twitter and other big social networks, including Facebook and YouTube, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2022\/10\/09\/social-media-content-moderation\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">have developed thick rulebooks<\/a> and added sophisticated systems to detect violations of their speech policies. But ample reporting over the years has shown that their biggest decisions \u2014 like suspending Trump \u2014 often hinge on the <a href=\"https:\/\/onezero.medium.com\/the-one-rule-of-content-moderation-that-every-platform-follows-ab6323e0e293\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">subjective calls<\/a> of high-ranking executives.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">At stake, in the broadest sense, is the role of social media in political discourse, and whether Silicon Valley tech firms can be trusted to fairly and judiciously wield their power over who gets heard in the modern public square.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">Musk has said his purchase of Twitter, which is particularly influential among politicians and the media, was motivated by frustration with its policies and a desire to make it a haven for unfettered speech. He portrayed his decision to grant a handpicked group of writers special access to Twitter\u2019s internal communication systems as a necessary reckoning with Twitter\u2019s overly censorial past.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">The writers include former New York Times<i> <\/i>opinion writer Bari Weiss and onetime Rolling Stone<i> <\/i>scribe Matt Taibbi, both of whom now write their own newsletters on Substack and have emerged as influential critics of the left and the mainstream media. With Musk\u2019s backing, they\u2019ve framed the files as part of broader narrative that tech giants are systematically \u201ccensoring\u201d conservative views.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">Whether you find the Twitter files a bombshell or a \u201cnothingburger\u201d probably depends on how much you already knew about the messy, often subjective work of<b> <\/b>online content moderation \u2014 and whether you were predisposed to see a political conspiracy at work in the documents.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">There are a handful of interesting new details that should trouble right and left alike. Taibbi found that Twitter\u2019s top content moderators were <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtaibbi\/status\/1601364807831425025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">meeting on a weekly basis<\/a> with multiple federal government agencies during the 2020 presidential campaign, whom they considered \u201cpartners\u201d in flagging election misinformation for removal. That could raise First Amendment concerns, not to mention avenues for potential meddling in elections by the incumbent administration (in this case, the Trump administration).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">Weiss devoted a thread to a series of moderation tools that Twitter called \u201cvisibility filtering\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bariweiss\/status\/1601007575633305600\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">critics dubbed \u201cshadowbanning,\u201d<\/a> in which the company blocked some users\u2019 tweets from appearing in search results or recommendations without telling them. While these tools\u2019 existence <a href=\"https:\/\/onezero.medium.com\/how-satan-was-disappeared-from-twitter-349a2a2bce32\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was public<\/a>, previously unpublished screenshots showed that company executives had more fine-grained controls at their disposal than they had acknowledged.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">But even<b> <\/b>with the writers presumably cherry-picking the juiciest excerpts they could find, there\u2019s little evidence that the company\u2019s content moderation decisions were guided by an explicitly partisan agenda. The screenshots mostly show Twitter officials earnestly wrestling with thorny questions of how to interpret and enforce their own policies, such as the policy against the publication of hacked materials, under which the company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/31\/hunter-biden-laptop-findings-renew-scrutiny-twitter-facebook-crackdowns\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_23\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">controversially blocked users<\/a> from sharing a 2020 New York Post<i> <\/i>story about the contents of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/30\/hunter-biden-china-laptop\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_23\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">In contrast, the man who ordered this public autopsy of Twitter\u2019s previous regime has shown himself in the first months of his ownership to be more capricious, self-interested, and partisan in his approach to online speech than his predecessors ever were.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">Since launching his bid for Twitter in the spring, Musk has repeatedly contradicted himself as to how he would approach content moderation; dismantled the company\u2019s internal and external accountability mechanisms; reversed long-standing policies without explanation; and used his power as owner to pursue petty personal vendettas. He has careened from claims that he would allow any legal speech to instituting sudden, sweeping bans on legal speech that had previously been allowed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">In his first days running Twitter, Musk said that he would convene a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2022\/10\/28\/elon-musk-buys-twitter\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_28\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">content moderation council<\/a> before making major changes to the company\u2019s speech policies or reinstating banned users. Weeks later, he began reinstating banned users en masse, including neo-Nazis and white supremacists, and rolled back the company\u2019s policy against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2022\/11\/29\/twitter-covid-misinformation-policy\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_28\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">covid-19 misinformation<\/a> without any apparent process. He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/11\/21\/musks-use-poll-reinstate-trump-sparks-backlash\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_28\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reinstated Trump<\/a> after holding an unscientific live poll of his own followers, a process that seemed designed mostly to gin up attention.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">He never did convene a content moderation council, and on Monday he abruptly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2022\/12\/12\/musk-twitter-harass-yoel-roth\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dissolved the company\u2019s external Trust and Safety Council<\/a>, which predated his takeover.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">On Nov. 6, Musk tweeted that his <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1589414958508691456\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">commitment to \u201cfree speech\u201d<\/a> extended even to not banning a two-year-old account that tracked the movements of his private jet, using publicly available flight data. But on Thursday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2022\/12\/14\/elonjet-twitter-suspension-jack-sweeney-talks\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_30\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Musk suspended that account<\/a> without notice, then permanently banned it, along with the personal account of its 20-year-old author, whom he threatened to sue. Only after the initial suspension did he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1603181423787380737\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announce a new policy<\/a> prohibiting Twitter users from tweeting the \u201clive location\u201d of other users without their consent \u2014 a policy that could have wide-ranging consequences, if enforced.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">Twitter\u2019s move on Thursday to suspend the accounts of several journalists, including Washington Post reporter Drew Harwell, took the company\u2019s crackdown to a new level.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">Last month, after a number of users changed their display names to \u201cElon Musk\u201d to mock him, Musk announced that anyone impersonating another user without a \u201cparody\u201d label would be permanently banned.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">And while the Twitter files strained to stitch together a case that the company\u2019s previous leaders harbored a liberal bias, Musk has proudly allied himself with the right since taking over Twitter, even publicly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2022\/11\/07\/elon-musk-twitter\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_35\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">encouraging Twitter users to vote Republican<\/a> in the U.S. midterm elections.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">Musk\u2019s own casual disdain for any form of consistency or accountability in his own approach to content moderation belies the notion that the Twitter files were a genuine exercise in transparency. In the context of his leadership, they come across as a mixture of vindictive score-settling, a made-for-social-media reality show, and an attempt to distract from scrutiny of the personal digital fiefdom that Musk\u2019s Twitter has quickly become.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"dn-ns hide-for-print\" data-testid=\"mostRead\" subscriptions-section=\"content\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><iframe data-lazy=\"true\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.fiverr.com\/gig_widgets?id=U2FsdGVkX18x7XQvttUTrv1oEqmGNGTgvvCUiUoJ\/AP4z\/UyMz8lXGOLpu15jIMxBbTR0gmD5uBoFvhC4KWeALQRp3h\/X\/AwcVD0K8Wj9H\/ZzYKzcCNHosB9oS4SCJJFWiN85P9ICAc4OgCoE\/wHKIY7CDkf2\/DQ1vqGvk4smVe5cRDEmrLPCWi4FC8p40VUhSmWQ5udCm0zoJtorgWv3vbDQw0kKYkwn39ozAnQXDe+YvWMxkLFWA+O3TFwkJvdkIK+\/AUSnRssPKt5WHY0FhNOxnSPcLslEL4G4\/RfP95ve99U+kRnDy3X+KtzdQLY+u935ghON\/o3UE4IMv9oN6JX9RnxzL\/LRcOgnHigxStSGPKsZYtnz8RWNVT\/rOLAibqiWJadC5MYHRbekF3eg6FOGrQGkXYbsn0+a5aovnlLCbLwIqY9fcS17UX8J235iQ6cdmHNbrPeS84CMm34RA==&affiliate_id=1052423&strip_google_tagmanager=true\" loading=\"lazy\" data-with-title=\"true\" class=\"fiverr_nga_frame\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"350\" width=\"100%\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-mode=\"random_gigs\" onload=\" var frame = this; var script = document.createElement('script'); script.addEventListener('load', function() { window.FW_SDK.register(frame); }); script.setAttribute('src', 'https:\/\/www.fiverr.com\/gig_widgets\/sdk'); document.body.appendChild(script); \" ><\/iframe>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2022\/12\/16\/twitter-files-musk-free-speech-hypocrisy\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=referral&#038;utm_campaign=wp_business-technology\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comment on this story Comment Over the past two weeks, a group of writers chosen by Elon Musk to review Twitter\u2019s previously confidential internal messages&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-universe"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Elon Musk\u2019s \u201cTwitter files\u201d are an exercise in hypocrisy - mailinvest.blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Technology is forever changing, and there are always new pieces of technology to replace obsolete ones. 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