> To those who aren’t aware yet, last week Twitter did add a direct reporting option for child sexual exploitation. (ONLY on tweets with content images/videos) this was not previously available and was a separate form that wasn’t easy to find. I’m grateful to see these changes.
> Bleu said following the meeting, they offered her a position on Twitter’s Trust and Safety Committee, but she declined because she refused to “work with or for abusers.”
Do you happen to have any links about Andrea Stoppa and Ghost Data? A Google search seems to find nothing but that story as evidence for their existence which seems a bit weird.
Ah, just noticed that the Daily Wire, bastion of accurate reporting they are, spelt the name wrong - it's "Andrea Stroppa" which returns more useful information and shows that Ghost Data have been around for a few years (although I'd note their reporting seems to be "here's a thing everyone knows presented as SHOCKING EVIDENCE!!! in a many page'd report".)
Nope. I just searched for a counterpoint. It's usually helpful before I swallow anything whole.
My basic point is -- it's too goddamned early to draw any conclusions about Twitter. We're going to find data for one thing or against it, because this just happened, in effective terms, and nothing has shaken out yet.
Yes, I am throwing out a counterbalance with somewhat less vitriol than the usual WARAHGHAGHGH Twitter is Dead! that appeared before the guy stepped foot in the place.
It isn't working. You're quoting someone who is part of a network of Tesla/Musk propaganda agents. Stroppa and Bleu are liars with agendas, one pretending to be a self funded researcher and the other a human trafficking advocate, and both are fielded by Musk's PR news site Teslarati to control a narrative.
"As shown by the infographic summarizing the results of our analysis, Elon Musk is one of the subjects with whom Stroppa interacts most on Twitter, retweeting, replying and quoting several times what, according to the annual Forbes ranking, is the man. richest in the world." | https://www.breakinglatest.news/health/andrea-stroppa-the-go...
Stroppa lied via Reuters months ago when he claimed he and 5 researchers spent two weeks and found only 500 CSAM accounts (those of us adjacent to CSAM research could find 50k in an accidental sneeze). He's being dishonest again in this story by intentionally citing action taken Twitter 2.0 when that action happened (and concluded) two days prior to Musk's takeover. His "reports" have been taken apart by actual CSAM investigators like Carolina Christfoletti (who actually flags his statements as "misinformation) and researchers across several universities.
Eliza Bleu is QANon disinfo agent, daughter of a MAGA Republican, and fundraising partner of Felecia Killings, a literal child rapist. She works with Mike Cernovich, one of the guys behind the Pizzagate conspiracy and the person responsible for getting James Gun fired. The time period she claimed she was trafficked, she was the well known girlfriend of Gerard Way and an American Idol contestant.
Their ruses work on everyone not in Infosec or OSINT who are familiar with their backgrounds because they say the right sounding words. So you buy it, the same way boomers watch CSI and think hacking the internet can be stopped by two people mashing keys or unplugging the power cord of a monitor. People read their bullshit and think they're actually involved in child exploitation research because they "sound" right.
Does that explain why Ol' Muskie gutted the moderation teams leaving one (1) moderator to look after all CSAM for Asia (60M+ users)?
https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-child-sexual-abuse-mater...