Twitter now owned by xAI - company founded by Elon Musk

[Legend]

Some preliminary testing indicates that Twitter is deboosting tweets containing certain words, including preventing them being shown as previews in DMs.

Current suspected words include (without letters not punctuation):

- Tr@ns
- G@y
- Lesbi@n
- Qu££r
- Bisexu@l

Try yourself.

— Trans Safety Network (@trans_safety) April 1, 2023

We can also confirm that, whilst any reference to s£x triggers this filter, the word "faggot" does not ????

— Trans Safety Network (@trans_safety) April 1, 2023

Heterosexual is also fine, but homos£xual is not!

Our current thinking is - because of how other partially filtered words which keep "s£x" intact interact - is that anything containing "s£x" is banned, but explicit exemptions have been made.

Not including qu££r s£xualities.

— Trans Safety Network (@trans_safety) April 1, 2023

IMPORTANT UPDATE:

We have just found that the filter blocked the initialism G.C. (without punctuation marks) - short for "gender critical" is also blocked. The full phrase and the acronym TERF are not.

— Trans Safety Network (@trans_safety) April 1, 2023

?? @elonmusk @TwitterSupport

Can you confirm why word's like 'Trans', 'BLM', & 'LGBT' are censored by Twitter, yet highly offensive slurs like 'trans-identified male' are not?

Thank you https://t.co/bW49Ob7T2M

— Adi Daly-Gourdialsing (she/her) @adi@mastodon.lol (@AdiDee_Gee) April 1, 2023

Free speech going well, as long as it's the right speech...

Twitter was involuntarily open sourced so shouldn't that be easy to confirm in the code?

[SWORDF1SH]

Twitter was involuntarily open sourced so shouldn't that be easy to confirm in the code?

Twitter is more transparent than any other social media and people still moan. Twitter is the most balanced social media but it's going through a period where it's exposing how the "right" was censored and it stings a little foe the "left". A few years down the line when it settles and it operating how they intend, it will be the best place to listening to both sides and make a decision for yourself. The far left and far right can disappear into their echo chambers and moan about Twitter there.

[Legend]

Twitter is more transparent than any other social media and people still moan. Twitter is the most balanced social media but it's going through a period where it's exposing how the "right" was censored and it stings a little foe the "left". A few years down the line when it settles and it operating how they intend, it will be the best place to listening to both sides and make a decision for yourself. The far left and far right can disappear into their echo chambers and moan about Twitter there.

I don't know if it's more balanced or not, I just wouldn't expect a third party study to figure out what is happening in the code.

[SWORDF1SH]

Our algorithm is obviously horrendous, but it will get better fast and in full view of the public, whose trust we must earn

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 2, 2023

[SWORDF1SH]

Absolutely love this.

Critically, Community Notes applies equally to every account on this platform without exception, including world leaders & our biggest advertisers

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 2, 2023

[the-pi-guy]

Twitter added a "state-affiliated media" tag to NPR's main account on Tuesday, applying the same label to the nonprofit media company that Twitter uses to designate official state mouthpieces and propaganda outlets in countries such as Russia and China.

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/05/1168158549/twitter-npr-state-affiliated-media

[kitler53]

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/05/1168158549/twitter-npr-state-affiliated-media

Pretty sickening. 

[the-pi-guy]

Twitter company no longer exists.

Twitter changed their name to X Corp. pic.twitter.com/RlOm5wrE35

— Dexerto (@Dexerto) April 11, 2023

[Legend]

Twitter company no longer exists.

Twitter changed their name to X Corp. pic.twitter.com/RlOm5wrE35

— Dexerto (@Dexerto) April 11, 2023

Something like that has been Musk's plan for years.

I guess x.com is going to finally show something besides x.

[kitler53]

i honestly don't know what to think about this.   is there any specific thing to be happy/wary of or is this just another rich people hiding their wealth from taxation?

[Legend]

i honestly don't know what to think about this.   is there any specific thing to be happy/wary of or is this just another rich people hiding their wealth from taxation?

It's just the same thing as google becoming alphabet or facebook becoming meta.

[kitler53]

It's just the same thing as google becoming alphabet or facebook becoming meta.

that's a good analogy.  so basically nothing worth having an opinion about.  

[BananaKing]

Your boy elon just destroyed the BBC

[the-pi-guy]

On a related note, I really hate arguing in person. The expectation of always having the correct answer and being able to justify every answer is not realistic.Public discussions are more arguably based on appearances.

 More on the topic at hand, how do you prove that hate speech is or isn't on the rise on a platform? That is not something you can just bring up a piece of evidence for. Evidence of increase is not the same as evidence of existence. It's substantially harder to show.

Out of a billion posts, if say a thousand would have been hate speech last year and 20000 this year, that would be evidence of a massive rise.

There are a lot of issues here. First off, when you're talking about millions or potentially billions of posts, everyone has different experiences. One person sees a dramatic increase in their timeline, 90 others don't, so therefore that person must be imagining it.  

Twitter is big enough that anecdotal experience doesn't mean that much.  

[Dr. Pezus]

Your boy elon just destroyed the BBC

Source?