Twitter CEO Elon Musk issued a statement clarifying how the platform will move forward with electoral integrity and content moderation, including hate speech and harassment, after the platform took action against several networks that appeared to influence or influence with another way to American political discourse ahead of the 2022 midterm elections. In a series of tweets, Musk said he was considering bringing some accounts back to the platform and creating a content moderation board. “Twitter will not allow anyone who has been removed for violating Twitter’s rules to return to the platform until we have a clear process to do so, which will take at least a few more weeks,” Musk said in a tweet to his 113 million followers. of. Elon Musk’s Twitter profile on a mobile phone and a picture of him. | Getty Images The CEO added: “Twitter’s content moderation board will include representatives with widely divergent views, which will certainly include the civil rights community and groups dealing with hate-fueled violence.” Musk also said he spoke with several civil society leaders, including Jonathan Greenblatt of the Anti-Defamation League, Norman Chen of The Asian American Foundation, Derrick Johnson of the NAACP and others about how Twitter will “continue to fight hate and harassment and enforce its election integrity policies. .” ELON MUSK SAYS YES, EX-KANYE WEST, REINSTATED AT TWITTER BEFORE RECOVERING PLATFORM Musk’s tweets came after the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP), a nonpartisan coalition founded in 2020 to identify and combat misinformation on social media, announced that Twitter had suspended six pro-Republican and pro-Democrat networks that are mostly outside the USA allegedly intended to influence the upcoming elections. “On October 26, 2022, Twitter released six datasets to the Twitter Moderation Research Consortium, consisting of six distinct non-authentic networks with technical ties to China and Iran, which had tweeted about the United States midterm elections in November of 2022,” the EIP said. analysis, released on November 1. According to EIP, the six networks, some of which included over 100,000 tweets from various users, were ultimately suspended as they violated Twitter’s Platform Spam and Manipulation Policy. ELON MUSK RESPONDS TO STEPHEN KING ABOUT TWITTER VERIFICATION FEE “The content published by five of the six networks focused primarily on US politics, and particularly the midterm elections scheduled for November 8, 2022. The sixth focused on a litany of geopolitical issues, including the Russia-Ukraine war and foreign policy of America in China, with some scattered commentary on the in-between,” EIP added. Twitter’s headquarters are seen in San Francisco, California, United States on October 28, 2022. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) The networks included: 10Votes, EvenPolitics, Follow Back Resistance, Florida Anti-Rubio Network, the Conservative #LeadFromWithin Network, and the Pro-China Network. Yoel Roth, head of Safety & Integrity at Twitter, confirmed the actions as Twitter “remains vigilant” to stop election influence. “We remain vigilant against attempts to manipulate conversations about the 2022 US midterm elections. Read on for an independent analysis of our teams’ work,” he said. 10Votes consisted of five accounts with 5,832 tweets that included messages, most posted by two accounts between December 2021 and September 2022, according to the EIP. A key account on the network posted pro-Trump messages, including challenges to the legitimacy of the 2020 election. The accounts shared “memes and endorsements” of certain congressional candidates and discouraged abortion, among other liberal social issues. Another account within the network presented itself as a “progressive political advocacy organization,” which tweeted endorsements of various Democratic candidates in races across the country, including “congressional districts #MI11, #NY03, #OH11, and #TX38.” the EIP reported. In this photo, a Twitter logo appears on a smartphone with a Chinese flag in the background. (Avishek Das/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images/Getty Images) The account also singled out numerous political figures, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, PA Sen. Candidate John Fetterman, Sen. Ed Markey, Sen. Jeff Merkley and others. MASK DESCRIBES PLANS TO CHARGE TWITTER VERIFICATION, SLAMS CURRENT SYSTEM AS ‘BULLS—‘ The EvenPolitics Network consisted of 37 accounts that sent 109,410 tweets from 2020 to 2022. According to the report, most of the accounts shared pro-“resistance” messages supporting Democrats, Black Lives Matter and LGBTQIA content. Follow Back Resistance, a network of 16 accounts and 24,579 tweets, also shared content appealing to left-wing communities, including anti-Trump sentiment, posts about Roe v. Wade and “Free Palestine.” The EIP identified those bills as intended to amplify “strong views on polarizing issues in American politics” and potentially influence those “who might vote in a way that more closely aligns” with their views. Former President Donald Trump speaks at a Save America rally on October 22, 2022 in Robstown, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images/Getty Images) According to its website, EIP’s goal is “to empower the research community, election officials, government agencies, civil society organizations, social media platforms and others to defend our elections against those who seek to undermine them by exploiting weaknesses in the online information environment.” CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX BUSINESS APP Their analysis was conducted with the Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO), the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public (CIP), Graphika, the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab). In its conclusion, the EIP said, “We hope this assessment of authentic Twitter activity provides useful visibility into the tactics of motivated foreign parties seeking to influence American political discourse, particularly around elections.” “Despite the comparatively small number of engagements achieved by these networks, operations like these reinforce that foreign interference is ongoing and that platform integrity teams working alongside investigators to find, assess and disrupt these manipulative operations remains critical to to stop still small”, he added.
