New Delhi, Sep 3 : Twitter’s ambitious plan to combat the spread of extremism through its platform ended up being an uproar after Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced that he was buying it.Then, in months after the health research team has gone under down from 15 people to two, according to the media reports.Twitter has joined forces with Moonshot, an analysis company that analyzes violent extremists, to launch an initiative called “Redirect” to stop the dissemination of dangerous content that is posted on Twitter.
According to The Verge, “the goal was to change the way the company operates away from reacting only to bad accounts and postings to informing users to behave better”.
However, before the plan could be seen in the light of the day, Musk in April announced that he would purchase the business for $44 billion.Then all the excitement erupted.
“Shortly following, employees who’d been in charge of the Moonshot partnership resigned.And in the years following the time Musk signed the agreement the health research team has virtually disappeared and gone from 15 employees to two people,” The report concluded late on Friday.
The project aimed to better analyze and address user behaviours.
“Instead of focusing on designating bad accounts or content, we try to understand the ways users come across harmful content in accounts, and then redirect their efforts.” found an internal memo.
Many former researchers have told The Verge that the turmoil caused with Musk’s offer to buy the company “was an extreme point that caused them to choose to do other research”.
A few employees who remained reported to “deprioritise Redirect in favour of projects that deal with spam and bots” according to reports.Musk wanted to be aware of the exact number of spam accounts running on the platform.
Twitter has yet to respond to the report.
Another The Verge report claimed this week that Twitter was planning to make money from adult-oriented content this year by permitting adult authors to offer subscriptions on the micro-blogging site and earn a profit in the blink of an eye.
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