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Kelly Lynch Instagram – Twitter, like any social-media platform, relies on talented people to work properly. Underestimating the value of those people would be a grave mistake, Charlie Warzel writes in @theatlantic
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Last night Elon Musk reportedly took control of Twitter, firing CEO Parag Agrawal and other executives, including Vijaya Gadde, the head of legal, policy, and trust. There is, both inside and outside the company, an apocalyptic feel to the ordeal, Warzel reports. People he spoke with were especially worried about losing site-reliability engineers and members of the internal trust-and-safety team, which handles content moderation. “These sites—no matter how talented the engineering organization—are often held together by a series of fragile, legacy systems, the precise functioning of which is only truly known to a few people,” Jason Goldman, a member of Twitter’s early team, a former board member, and the company’s former vice president of product, told Warzel. “Without even factoring in nefarious intent, it is easy to imagine scenarios where big mistakes happen because of the kind of disruption Twitter is about to endure … And it’s more likely to be from some small error that compounds than it is from the large decisions that often end up in the spotlight.”⁠
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“Reactionary tech figures such as Musk like to imply that content-moderation teams act as a kind of thought police. But these teams largely work on protecting users’ privacy, complying with laws, or keeping the site from becoming overrun by the kind of spam that no human wants to encounter,’” Warzel continues at the link in our bio. “Musk very well could kill Twitter out of malice or hubris, or through calculated, boneheaded decisions. But one possibility seems more likely than others. If Twitter dies at the hands of this billionaire, the cause is likely to be tragically banal—neglect.” ⁠
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#rp #theatlantic #elonmusk #twitter | Posted on 28/Oct/2022 23:17:37