▲ President-elect Donald Trump received the support of the CEO of X, Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk, in his campaign, who will join the bureaucracy of the next government in the United States. The image, yesterday at Madison Square Garden in New York.Photo Ap
From the Editorial
La Jornada Newspaper
Sunday, November 17, 2024, p. 18
Social network X is guilty of political abuseconcludes an investigation published in the scientific journal Nature Communications, while the british newspaper Guardian and spanish The Vanguard They announced that they will leave the platform, owned by billionaire Elon Musk.
A team of researchers from the University of London and the Alan Turing Institute concluded: Political abuse is a key feature of political communication in X and whether you are on the left or the right, it is just as common to see politically committed users abusing their political opponents to a similar degree and with little room for moderateshighlighted the work disseminated by the Argentine media Page/12.
The contribution, which included data from 2022 and nine countries, indicated how those users who deviate from the norms of their partythey are quickly pigeonholed as political enemies. According to the publication, 375 million messages were used for the analysis during a 24-hour period, and they were linked to a sample of 1,800 politicians who have an active account observed users who they retweeted to politicians, and thus they estimated their ideological inclination. In this way they managed to measure the toxicity of content to indicate online abuse.
Misinform and create disturbing content
Since the owner of Tesla and Starlink bought Twitter in 2022, fired the technical staff in charge of the area that technology companies call content moderation, who were in charge of avoiding or mitigating, not always successfully, the circulation of illegal messages, such as violence and harassment, hate speech, misinformation that puts people at risk. the lives of third partiesindicated the researcher of the Conicet (National Council of Scientific and Technical Research of Argentina), Martín Becerra, in statements to Page/12.
Recently, Guardian announced that it was abandoning platform disturbing content and the spread of far-right conspiracy theories and racism, so he warned his readers that we will no longer publish to any official editorial account on the X network site.
Regarding the US presidential election campaign, the British media outlet expressed on its website that It only underlined what we have long considered: X is a toxic media platform and its owner, Elon Musk, has been able to use his influence to shape political discourse. Meanwhile, The Vanguard argued that X became a network of disinformation and that makes messages that violate human rights go viral.
He also remembered mass dismissal of workers and the consequent suppression of the department that moderated the content. The big advertisers that had the platform abandoned it a long time agohe added.
For its part, the European Commission explained last week that it will continue active on the social network due to lack of measures against the risk of disinformationindicated the Europa Press news agency.