Casey Newton

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Casey Newton @CaseyNewton

Twitter had been working on Redirect, an effort to steer users away from extremism content on the platform. But it cut funding earlier this year, and the people working on civil conversations dropped from 15 to two — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 2, 2022

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NEW: How a Twitter plan to counter extremism fell apart. A research team was midway through a project to help troubled users. Then Elon Musk bought the company @ZoeSchiffer and me: https://t.co/thJ2UB9yOv — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 2, 2022

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As a result, this effort to prevent the growth of incels, anti-vaxxers and other harmful actors on the platform have stalled. It’s a concrete example of how the turmoil of 2022 is hurting some of Twitter’s most important teams — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 2, 2022