As Twitter transitions to being run by its new owner, Elon Musk, employee access to the dashboard tools used by its “Trust and Safety” team to ban or suspend accounts has been dramatically limited.
According to Bloomberg, which cites unnamed sources, only about 15 people still have access to the tools that were previously available to hundreds of staff members.
Musk has tweeted that he has not yet made “any changes to Twitter’s content moderation policies” so far, but employees report two aspects of policy that Musk is questioning.
The first is Twitter’s general misinformation policy, used to block posts and users who say things about the 2020 election, Covid, or other hot political topics that the enforcers consider to be falsehoods.
Second is the hateful conduct policy, specifically, say the sources, the section on “targeted misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals.”
