Twitter's owner Elon Musk has pledged the platform will not become a 'hellscape,' but experts fear a staff exodus following mass layoffs may have devastated its ability to combat misinformation, impersonation and data theft.
WASHINGTON — Twitter's owner Elon Musk has pledged the platform will not become a "hellscape," but experts fear a staff exodus following mass layoffs may have devastated its ability to combat misinformation, impersonation and data theft.
"It is imperative that [US regulators] act with urgency as users could have their sensitive data exploited or even stolen given the lack of sufficient staff that remain to adequately protect it." Wary brands have paused or slowed down ad spending—Twitter's biggest revenue source—after a spike in racist and antisemitic trolling on the platform.
"If there is one lesson that all social-media platforms must take away from this debacle, it's that without protecting users from hate and lies you have no company at all." "You won't find the tweet unless you specifically seek it out, which is no different from the rest of the Internet," he added."We could certainly see a spike in misinformation, hate speech, and other objectionable content because of Musk's latest moves," Zeve Sanderson, executive director of the New York University's Center for Social Media and Politics, told AFP.
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