Twitter bans own CEO Jack Dorsey from Twitter Twitter today briefly suspended the Twitter account of Twitter cofounder and CEO Jack Dorsey. For a moment, we all thought the big boss had been unceremoniously booted out of the troubled biz or had fallen foul of his own anti-abuse complaints system. But it was probably a bug or something mundane like that. Twits surfing over …
The three tweets - or is that twits? - cited don’t appear to appreciate they are active users of the social media - or is that social engineering? - service which they are bagging.
The real question is how would you know that Jack Dorsey was suspended without actually going there?
Twitter can't possibly monitor the firehose of tweets that millions of people submit; We all know that, like so many sites, they rely on algorithms to deal with abuse and harassment. But as we've seen many times -- a concerted effort by threat actors can manipulate the system to nuke accountsed. And that is, of course, what happened here. The lack of press release is further evidence of this: Nobody wants to admit that the resources required to effectively and fairly police their users would exceed their income. They have to present the idea that the policies are effective, even when they aren't. It's bureaucracy 101: "We don't have a problem and we're working to fix it as fast as we can."
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All algorithmically-based anti-abuse systems are invariably misused to silence critics. You can't effectively prevent abuse, harassment, or hate speech through algorithms; The reverse is usually the result -- abusive people manipulate those systems to damage their opponents far more than they could if the provider remained neutral. It may *also* slow down or deter the behaviors in question, but that quickly becomes the exception, not the norm, as resources expended remain constant while user count skyrockets.
"We all know that, like so many sites, they rely on algorithms to deal with abuse and harassment. But as we've seen many times -- a concerted effort by threat actors can manipulate the system to nuke accounts"
And this is only an example of using big data and "AI" to run businesses. What could possssssibly go wrong?
"What a wonderful way to destroy someones credit rating.
Post a notice of their death and ..."
My employer (a bank) will accept a notification of death from your next of kin to prevent fraud/identity theft, but require an actual death certificate to formally class you as deceased.
Very bad man that Donald Trump, very bad....
I really dont care what he thinks in private, and as President of the USA, I shouldnt be able to find out so quickly and informatively....
He and his stupid tweets will bring the office into even more disrepute than he already does just by being President!
Can someone please remove his access......
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