Twitter Under Attack After Graphic Texas Shooting Images and Video Go Viral
thewrap.comElon Musk’s decision to gut the platform’s content moderation team amid layoffs, shortly after he bought Twitter in October.“This family does not deserve to see the dead relatives spread across Twitter for everybody to see,” veteran journalist Pat Holloway told the New York Times.According to Reuters, a graphic 10-second video from the scene showed dead bodies, including that of at least one young child, circulated on Twitter.
The news wire reached out to Twitter for comment.“In past shootings, social media sites have worked to take down links to such graphic images,” Reuters reported Sunday evening. “An emailed request for comment to Twitter, which no longer has a communications team, returned an automated reply with a poop emoji.”Another image showed a man, shot, lying on the floor in a pool of blood. “The #AR15shooting resulted.
So @GovAbbott and @tedcruz can get money from the @NRA ,” tweeted retired serviceman Russell Honore. TheWrap has chosen not to share these images.
The site’s lack of content moderation staff had previously been considered a drawback for users and major advertisers who feared very little would be done by the platform in combating hate speech and misinformation.
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