The news from Twitter continues to go from bad to worse: the firm's head of trust and safety, who's responsible for content moderation and user safety, has quit after apparently being overruled by Elon Musk regarding hate speech. Research by the Center for Countering Digital Hate found that Twitter apparently ignores hate speech if it's posted by Twitter Blue users, and the climate is so toxic that big brands such as Ben & Jerry's have pulled their ads from Twitter altogether.
If Twitter were a boat, it'd be the Titanic – with Musk deliberately crashing into the iceberg to own the libs. But the lifeboats we've seen so far don't seem to be up to the job: despite recent improvements and at least one great app Mastodon still feels a bit too techy for the average Twitter evacuee, while the Twitter-a-like Bluesky's policy of only letting users invite one new person a fortnight means it remains off-limits to most.
