US Congressional Election – Missing Twitter Warnings Cause Criticism

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After the takeover by Tesla founder Elon Musk, Twitter was criticized again. Especially because according to experts, the SMS service did not take the right action against disinformation in the US midterm elections. The Twitter posts of Republican candidates Marjorie Taylor Greene and Kari Lake should have contained warnings under company policy, the US non-governmental organization Common Cause said Tuesday.

Greene and Lake’s posts received tens of thousands of likes and retweets on Twitter. Republicans on social media on Tuesday blamed Democrats for reported election troubles in some locations.

Reaction time after termination significantly slowed
Common Cause, which advocates for transparency in politics, also noted a significant slowdown in Twitter’s response time since Friday after employees responsible for posting credible information were fired. “Twitter is hopeless and only reacts as if they are investigating and then goes unresponsive for days,” the group said. The company’s response time was previously usually between one and three hours. Twitter initially did not respond to requests from Reuters for comment.

Tuesday’s election is a test for Twitter and other social media outlets, which have struggled for years to balance free speech and the spread of potentially harmful comments. Ahead of Tuesday’s midterm elections, Yoel Roth, chief of security and integrity for both Musk and Twitter, announced that the company would uphold and enforce its election integrity policies. Musk himself had called for the election of Republican candidates on Twitter.

Source: Krone

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