Twitter is threatening legal action against the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a nonprofit that researches hate speech and content moderation on social media platforms.
The letter from Twitter’s lawyers alleges that CCDH’s research publications are intended to ‘harm Twitter’s business by driving advertisers away from the platform with incendiary claims.’
This is a pretty bold move from Twitter, especially considering that CCDH is a well-respected organization that has been doing this kind of research for years. And it’s especially ironic coming from Elon Musk, who has said that he’s a ‘free speech absolutist.’
But Musk has also shown that he’s sensitive to criticism, so it’s not surprising that he’s taking this kind of action against CCDH
From what I have seen/heard from people still on there, there’s a new setting that only allows you to receive DMs from “verified users” (i.e. Twitter Blue subscribers). You are automatically opted into this and have to opt out to receive DMs from others.
100% incorrect. I just looked and it’s not enabled, it’s not opt out.
Really? My friend was having issues with it and another friend instructed that she got automatically opted into it and had to manually disable that setting.
Unless that’s old news and was later changed.
All I can say is that I’ve never disabled it and it’s disabled.
Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was changed to be opt-in (if it wasn’t in the first place) pretty quickly, considering that seems to be the theme on the platform these days. :D Make stupid change, bleed users, alter stupid change to be less stupid.