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This is the best summary I could come up with:
The Elon Musk-owned social network formerly named Twitter has reportedly cut half of its election integrity team just weeks after saying it would expand the group.
Now operating under the name X, Musk's firm "is cutting around half of the global team devoted to limiting disinformation and election fraud on the platform, including the head of the group, according to three people familiar with the situation," The Information reported yesterday, adding:
The cuts hit all four Dublin-based members of the team, including Aaron Rodericks, its leader, who is based in Ireland, the people familiar with the matter said.
In response he said he received "a barrage of threatening, and abusive messages" from persons who wrongly believed the posts were an attempt by X to censor free speech and influence election outcomes.
But on August 29, X said it was "expanding our safety and elections teams to focus on combating manipulation, surfacing inauthentic accounts and closely monitoring the platform for emerging threats."
Using nearly identical language as last month's announcement, she said X is "expanding the safety and election teams all around the world to focus on combating things like manipulation, surfacing of inauthentic accounts and closely monitoring the platform for any emerging threats."
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So Putin told you to do this? I mean, why else would you do something so blatantly stupid?
They were being fair and balanced, not favoring a particular candidate or party. This of course is not what Musk intended, so they got the axe.
I have run out of surprised reactions to his bullshit.
It's modern social media, not pedalling conspiracy theories is bad for business.