{"id":140709,"date":"2022-06-16T23:24:30","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T04:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/elon-musks-twitter-content-policy-will-make-raising-a-troll-army-more-expensive"},"modified":"2022-06-16T23:24:30","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T04:24:30","slug":"elon-musks-twitter-content-policy-will-make-raising-a-troll-army-more-expensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/elon-musks-twitter-content-policy-will-make-raising-a-troll-army-more-expensive","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s Twitter content policy will make raising a \u2018troll army\u2019 more expensive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0mRoElUuikc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk is finally revealing some specifics of his Twitter content moderation policy. Assuming he completes the buyout <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/elon-musk-buys-twitter\" rel=\"dofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-id=\"embedded internal links\" data-type=\"link\" data-url=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/elon-musk-buys-twitter\">he initiated at $44 billion<\/a> in April, it seems the tech billionaire and Tesla CEO is open to a \u201chands-on\u201d approach \u2014 something many didn\u2019t expect, according to <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/6\/16\/23171014\/elon-musk-twitter-all-hands-free-speech-moderation\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">an initial report from <em>The Verge<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This came in reply to an employee-submitted question regarding Musk\u2019s intentions for content moderation, where Musk said he thinks users should be allowed to \u201csay pretty outrageous things within the law\u201d, during an all-hands meeting he had with Twitter\u2019s staff on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><b>Elon Musk views Twitter as a platform for \u2018self-expression\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n<p>This exemplifies a distinction initially popularized by Ren\u00e9e DiResta, a disinformation authority \u2014 according to the report. But, during the meeting, Musk said he wants Twitter to impose a stricter standard against bots and spam, adding that \u201cit needs to be much more expensive to have a troll army.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk is finally revealing some specifics of his Twitter content moderation policy. Assuming he completes the buyout he initiated at $44 billion in April, it seems the tech billionaire and Tesla CEO is open to a \u201chands-on\u201d approach \u2014 something many didn\u2019t expect, according to an initial report from The Verge. This came in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,2019,1496,31,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-elon-musk","category-law","category-policy","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}