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(Former) Employees of Twitter

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Monday, December 12, 2022 10:16 AM

Dr. Fauci's daughter Alison Fauci was on the Trust and Safety Council.
John Podesta's niece Lesley Podesta was on the Trust and Safety Council.

The "Trust and Safety Council" was responsible for censoring posts and banning accounts.

Jeff Carlton, former CIA and FBI operative was Head of Twitter's Strategic Response Team, which handled the highest issues of the Trust and Safety Council.

James Baker, former FBI general counsel was Twitter's deputy legal counsel

Meanwhile, child pornography was all over Twitter before Musk got involved, and when previous attempts to put more money into the team tasked with removing the content were made, former heads of Twitter denied this request.

All of the money was going toward making sure people couldn't save other people's lives by letting them know of the dangers of the Covid shots, and pushing all of the Democrat's kid fucking agendas.

Preserve your documents. You're all going to prison.

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Tuesday, December 13, 2022 12:27 PM

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If Child Protection Is Musk’s ‘Top Priority,’ Why Is It So Easy To Find Users Selling Images Of Nude Minors On Twitter?

Thomas Brewster, Forbes Staff Associate editor covering cybercrime, privacy, security and surveillance.

Alexandra S. Levine, Forbes Staff Technology

Nov 30, 2022, 05:30am EST

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has promised that protecting children is the company's “top priority,” but it’s not hard to find illegal sexual material of minors being traded on the platform.

Elon Musk has received praise for his attempts to tackle Twitter’s long-documented child exploitation problems. Yet Forbes finds many users who appear to be trading egregious illegal content.

Last week, influential podcaster Liz Wheeler, who describes herself as “unapologetically one of the conservative movement's boldest voices,” took to Twitter to praise its new CEO, Elon Musk, for purging the site of “child pornography and child trafficking hashtags.” (Child advocates have long argued these terms indicate legitimacy and compliance on the part of the victim, and that such content should be called “child sexual abuse material.”)

“Think about how many little children he’s saving from sexual abuse, exploitation & torture,” she added. Responding to Wheeler’s comments on Tuesday, Musk tweeted, “This will forever be our top priority.”

Yet such illegal material remains alarmingly easy to find on Twitter—in multiple languages. Hashtags and search terms long related to child sexual abuse material (CSAM) still return lots of associated content. And recently departed Twitter employees, from the rank-and-file to the executive level, told Forbes the issue will be far more difficult to combat now that Musk has obliterated the teams charged with policing it, as well as their institutional knowledge.

As one such team member explained: “No one is left who is an expert on these issues and can do the work. . . . It’s a ghost town.”

While it is true that some hashtags previously used by those trading child sexual abuse material (CSAM) appear to have been rendered useless — something for which Musk was recently celebrated — plenty have not.

In under an hour of searching on Tuesday, Forbes found dozens of users offering to buy and sell child sexual abuse images and videos. One offered footage of nude children ages 5 to 17. Another mentioned an exchange of images of children being abused on Telegram. Both these tweets, as well as nearly 30 others either promoting or seeking CSAM, were posted in the last week.

Simply searching the same words in banned hashtags revealed advertisements for much of the same content. One Twitter search for links to a well-known online storage platform returned a number of tweets offering videos of young boys and girls having sex with fathers and “with adult,” as well as images of “forced sex.”

Other questionable hashtags were still searchable. One containing an abbreviation long associated with CSAM returned ads, including one containing the image of what appeared to be an underage girl, offering an RFID tag that could be scanned and promised to take the user through to a CSAM-themed website. Forbes also found multiple Spanish-language users offering what appeared to be images of minor girls over on Telegram, with Spanish hashtags attached.

Such posts often had other hashtags attached. These could be clicked on to reveal yet more problematic content, such as a tweet with a cartoon depiction of a minor and male genitalia, with overlaid text asking for, “anything illegal or legal. This person is horny.”

Even some hashtags that were ostensibly banned before Musk took over Twitter returned a handful of problematic results. While no new posts were visible when searching one such hashtag, one popped up from June in which a user said they were looking for images of newborns. That user was still on Twitter as of Tuesday. With only three posts, all carrying the same text and image, it’s possible they were a bot, another bugbear Musk has promised to tackle. It’s unclear why the account remains online. Twitter did not respond to a request for comment.

Experts who have long studied the pervasiveness of this material on social media have warned that reducing Twitter’s CSAM problem to a handful of hashtags is a gross oversimplification. They say Musk is essentially being applauded for something he hasn’t done, or even tried to do.

“I don't see any meaningful action taken by Musk so far,” said Carolina Christofoletti, a CSAM threat analyst and researcher at the University of São Paulo in Brazil. She has cautioned that the issue “is far bigger than a bunch of hashtags” and “much bigger than ‘easy to catch’ fishes.” She noted that the wiping of some troubling CSAM hashtags and other associated actions “were all things done under the previous leadership.”

“He has drained the child safety team on Twitter without any risk impact whatsoever,” she added, pointing to a Musk tweet asking users — rather than his internal team — for ideas on how to better tackle CSAM. “Twitter is exactly how it was, nothing new under the sun here,” she wrote in a LinkedIn post. “The CSAM networks are still there, as active as before.”

Meanwhile, the National Center on Sexual Exploitation is warning that Musk’s reported plans to move forward with a paywalled video feature, akin to OnlyFans, would only exacerbate the already urgent children’s safety issues on the site. “Musk cannot confront child sexual abuse material on Twitter while creating another means that would only fuel sexual abuse and exploitation on the platform,” Lina Nealon, director of corporate and strategic initiatives, said in a public statement Tuesday.

At least one person who remains at the company said the leadership shakeup has not changed Twitter’s policy on, or employees’ commitment to, the issue. A current child safety specialist said Musk is “fully aware” of Twitter’s “zero tolerance” approach to child exploitation material and that “our team is working 24/7” across three regions — San Francisco, Singapore and Dublin — to keep children safe.

“I'm proud of the work we do for our team,” she wrote to Forbes over LinkedIn. “And despite all the outside/internal noise, our team is focused on our work.”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandralevine/2022/11/30/elon-musk-twit
ter-child-exploitation-promises/

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Tuesday, December 13, 2022 2:09 PM

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Musk dissolved Twitter's internal human rights council

Twitter’s Trust and Safety Council, a group of human and civil rights advisers formed in 2016, was disbanded by email from Elon Musk before a scheduled meeting. The email said Twitter was “reevaluating how best to bring external insights.”

By Matt O'Brien and Barbara Ortutay Associated Press

December 13, 2022

Elon Musk’s Twitter has dissolved its Trust and Safety Council, the advisory group of around 100 independent civil, human rights, and other organizations that the company formed in 2016 to address hate speech, child exploitation, suicide, self-harm, and other problems on the platform.

The council had been scheduled to meet with Twitter representatives Monday night. But Twitter informed the group via email that it was disbanding it shortly before the meeting was to take place, according to multiple members.

The council members, who provided images of the email from Twitter to The Associated Press, spoke on the condition of anonymity due to fears of retaliation. The email said Twitter was “reevaluating how best to bring external insights” and the council is “not the best structure to do this.”

“Our work to make Twitter a safe, informative place will be moving faster and more aggressively than ever before and we will continue to welcome your ideas going forward about how to achieve this goal,” said the email, which was signed “Twitter.”

The volunteer group provided expertise and guidance on how Twitter could better combat hate, harassment, and other harms but didn’t have any decision-making authority and didn’t review specific content disputes. Shortly after buying Twitter for $44 billion in late October, Mr. Musk said he would form a new “content moderation council” to help make major decisions but later changed his mind.

“Twitter’s Trust and Safety Council was a group of volunteers who over many years gave up their time when consulted by Twitter staff to offer advice on a wide range of online harms and safety issues,” tweeted council member Alex Holmes. “At no point was it a governing body or decision making.”

Twitter, which is based in San Francisco, had confirmed the meeting with the council Thursday in an email in which it promised an “open conversation and Q&A” with Twitter staff, including the new head of trust and safety, Ella Irwin.

That came on the same day that three council members announced they were resigning in a public statement posted on Twitter that said that “contrary to claims by Elon Musk, the safety and wellbeing of Twitter’s users are on the decline.”

Those former council members soon became the target of online attacks after Mr. Musk amplified criticism of them and Twitter’s past leadership for allegedly not doing enough to stop child sexual exploitation on the platform.

“It is a crime that they refused to take action on child exploitation for years!” Mr. Musk tweeted.

A growing number of attacks on the council led to concerns from some remaining members who sent an email to Twitter earlier on Monday demanding the company stop misrepresenting the council’s role.

Those false accusations by Twitter leaders were “endangering current and former Council members,” the email said.

The Trust and Safety Council, in fact, had as one of its advisory groups one that focused on child exploitation. This included the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, the Rati Foundation, and YAKIN, or Youth Adult Survivors & Kin in Need.

Former Twitter employee Patricia Cartes, whose job it was to form the council in 2016, said Monday its dissolution “means there’s no more checks and balances.” Ms. Cartes said the company sought to bring a global outlook to the council, with experts from around the world who could relay concerns about how new Twitter policies or products might affect their communities.

She contrasted that with Mr. Musk’s current practice of surveying his Twitter followers before making a policy change affecting how content gets moderated.

“He doesn’t really care as much about what experts think,” she said.

https://www.csmonitor.com/Technology/2022/1213/Why-Musk-dissolved-Twit
ter-s-internal-human-rights-council

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Thursday, December 15, 2022 12:21 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Good. Fuck the "Trust and Safety" counsel.

Just a bunch of kid fucking, American hating, constitution raping Leftoid jagoffs.

Your propaganda machine is broken. And all the Legacy Media outlets are laying off a lot of their staff because everyone's tuning out and everyone knows that they're all liars.

And now they're all afraid that they're going to go to prison for what they've done.

Preserve your documents.

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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.

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Thursday, December 15, 2022 7:58 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Good. Fuck the "Trust and Safety" counsel.

Just a bunch of kid fucking, American hating, constitution raping Leftoid jagoffs.

Your propaganda machine is broken. And all the Legacy Media outlets are laying off a lot of their staff because everyone's tuning out and everyone knows that they're all liars.

And now they're all afraid that they're going to go to prison for what they've done.

Preserve your documents.

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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.

It is always best when foreign actors from sh!thole countries are ruling and deciding how American Freedoms, like Freedom Of Speech, are preserved.

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