“Free speech”
his speech, not ours
he meant free twitter from speech the whole time
I think he meant “Free speech free”
Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences. Post bullshit “studies” that are intentionally misleading to try and harm a company and of course you’ll be facing legal action.
We had an ongoing project studying network communication structures within social media groups. The primary goal was to identify patterns of misinformation dissemination. We lost our ability to poll the API and pull messages to build up our data sets to work with. The cost to hit the API used to be free for a limited rate for researchers, but the new doofus in charge demanded a massive rate to get even a reasonable quantity of data so we had to fold up shop. We just routed the students to other projects, but it’s one more way to isolate and control the network so the dictator can be in charge however they like.
I mean…… it’s his private company, he doesn’t owe you API access, especially when that access is being used for another companies business.
Why does anyone still use this platform, anyway?
They’re losing users and advertisers every day. It’s mostly just his bots and fascists now that are still on it.
It’s useful for keeping an eye on the chuds in some places. Since the API got neutered it’s harder to do it with automated tools, though.
There’s been a steady exodus of news and legal people onto Threads. Techie people seem to be moving more to Mastodon.
Once the automated posting tools catch up with the Threads and Mastodon APIs, there will be less reason to check anything relevant on Twitter.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Meanwhile, X’s content moderation efforts have continued to be heavily scrutinized as X struggles to prove that it’s containing the spread of misinformation and hate speech under Musk’s new policies.
Most recently, X CEO Linda Yaccarino had to step in—amid outcry from X advertisers and staff—to remove a pro-Hitler post that went viral on the platform, The Information reported.
X later claimed that the post was removed because it broke platform rules, not because of the backlash, but X’s efforts to proactively monitor antisemitic speech seemingly failed there.
And nobody’s sure why X’s global escalation team delayed action, although it’s possible that they feared that removing the post might be considered censorship and incite the ire of Musk, the “free speech absolutist.”
In February, the CITR published a letter, warning that Musk charging high fees for access to Twitter data that was previously free “will disrupt critical projects from thousands of journalists, academics, and civil society actors worldwide who study some of the most important issues impacting our societies today.”
Reuters reported that CITR’s survey, “for the first time,” importantly quantifies the number of studies canceled since these fees were imposed.
The original article contains 494 words, the summary contains 191 words. Saved 61%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
Reminds me of security research in the late 90’s.
Can’t have hate speech and misinformation running rampant if nobody is keeping track of the data.
You may admire, but from afar
The one he threatened with legal action was so egregiously stupid and biased that they deserved it. They were clearly spreading lies to try and harm Twitter.
For those that aren’t aware of it, it was one that claimed hate speech has exploded, but their methodology counted all replies to any tweet that they deemed “hateful” as hate speech, even if 1000 of the 1001 replies were telling the original tweeter that what they said was hateful and they should stop.
Yes you read that right - 1 person calling someone the N word followed by 100 people calling them out and saying they’re racist was counted as 101 instances of hate speech 😂
social studies news are not technology.
It’s certainly a tech topic.
