Elon Musk is poised to acquire Twitter in the coming weeks. In recent months, Musk talked about potential mass layoffs that would reduce the company’s staff by 75%. While details of the potential layoffs remain limited, the move could compromise the platform’s capacity to police false or harmful content, with ramifications that extend to social issues like election integrity. The experience of a typical user could change significantly, they added, noting the possible rise of harassment and other forms of corrosive discourse. Even a downsizing of content moderation employees could be mitigated in part by an expansion of automated content policing, experts said. Twitter currently imposes limits on a range of speech, including hate speech, targeted harassment and media that features graphic violence. The company’s current management has reportedly planned to . . .
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