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0 pointsSamBam3y ago0 comments

That second one, poking fun at the BBC for saying that Twitter "can't protect users from trolling," was really the BBC shooting itself in the foot with a laughable headline burying the lede of the article:

> Twitter insiders: We can't protect users from trolling under Musk

> Twitter insiders have told the BBC that the company is no longer able to protect users from trolling, state-co-ordinated disinformation and child sexual exploitation, following lay-offs and changes under owner Elon Musk. [1]

For some reason, the headline decided to focus on "trolling" over an increase in child sexual assault and state-co-ordinated disinformation...

1. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64804007

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dbfx3y ago

Honestly the "insider" even talking about "protecting" people from trolling and state co-ordinated misinformation(?) in the same sentence as protecting them from csam makes it very hard to believe it's something genuine.

Sounds like the people who say all the petty things they dislike about someone on the internet and then finishes with "he's a pedo" to add gravitas.(yes elon does fall into this category)

Tijdreiziger3y ago

'Trolling' has basically come to mean 'misinformation' among the general public, in the same way that 'hacking' has come to mean 'cybercrime'.