X CEO Linda Yaccarino stepped in to remove a pro-Hitler post::X CEO Linda Yaccarino helped get a viral pro-Hitler tweet taken down, The Information reported. Hate speech has risen on X since Elon Musk’s takeover.

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      Does anyone else feel like saying Elon is worse than Hitler would be more acceptable than saying Hitler was better than Elon? It strikes me as odd because they are essentially the same statement but they just hit so differently.

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        You’re right. The connotation is different. “X is better than Y”, is generally implying “Y is good but X is even better”. “X is worse than Y” would be “Y is bad but X is even worse”.

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      It included a photo of Hitler with the caption, “At least now the world know, why he did, what he did.”

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    I didn’t read the article but they need the CEO to remove a pro-Hitler post? Nobody else can do it?

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      Yes, it shouldn’t take a C-suite level decision to remove content praising Hitler and the Holocaust. The fact that it does suggests there is major disfunction in X/Twitter’s approach to content moderation, which the article hints at but doesn’t really explain.

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      It’s a PR blunder. “Our content moderation is so broken the CEO had directly intervene to remove a post praising the Holocaust” isn’t a great message.

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      There’s PR for Musk and his businesses every single day. Idiots continue to upvote it even when it’s non-news like this.

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      I’m sure that tweet was also providing location of Elon’s jet, so it is justified.

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    The post in question appeared on the X page belonging to Afnan Ullah Khan, a member of the Senate in Pakistan, The Jerusalem Post reported. It included a photo of Hitler with the caption, “At least now the world know, why he did, what he did.”

    Great voters and politicians over in Pakistan.

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Ever since the Israel-Hamas conflict began last month, misinformation has been running rampant on social media, with X being one of the main forums.

    One expert previously told Insider that Elon Musk is to blame for the proliferation of misinformation on X due to the changes he made.

    One of these changes included a major cut to X’s trust and safety team, from 230 to 20 people, as reported by Insider’s Kali Hays.

    In the week following Elon Musk’s takeover, the Center for Countering Hate found that antisemitic slurs were posted at a 22% higher rate.

    The day before the tweet, in an October 27 blog post, Yaccarino asserted that safety is a “critical priority” for the X team.

    She also said the team is still working to “combat bad actors and consistently enforce our rules in areas such as hate speech, platform manipulation, child safety, impersonation, civic integrity, and more.”


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