Elon Musk fired a whole lot of people when he took over Twitter. And others, particularly those who were responsible for guardrails around the platform simply left. That has made the platform a train wreck next to a dumpster fire as it has become to every right wing nut job and Nazi among others. That in turn, along with Elon’s antics, have driven away advertisers. But the guardrails may, and I stress may be about to go back into place. Tech Crunch is reporting that Twitter is doing some hiring:
Nearly two years after the layoffs across X’s trust, safety and security teams, Elon Musk’s social media company is now trying to hire new employees to help moderate content and secure its platform, according to X’s official job listings.
In the last month, X posted two dozen job openings evenly split across its safety and cybersecurity teams.
The jobs on X’s safety team range from director of strategic response on X’s safety team to government affairs managers. On its cybersecurity teams, X is hiring several security engineers and a threat intelligence specialist.
I personally think that this might be a Hail Mary from Elon. Assuming that he isn’t actively trying to destroy Twitter. Which to be frank, I wouldn’t put it past him to do that. He’s got to make money somehow. And having the appearance of a group of humans who are capable of moderating content on Twitter would help with that as Elon could use that to appease and attract advertisers back to the platform. And in turn make money that way. There’s also the fact that the EU is demanding that Elon moderates content on Twitter. And perhaps he doesn’t want to fight the EU because Elon knows that he’d lose.
The question is, who would want to work for Elon given his behaviour to date? I sure as Hell wouldn’t want to. And I suspect that he might have difficulty filling these roles as a result of that.
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Twitter Is Hiring Security And Safety Staff… Is This A Hail Mary?
Elon Musk fired a whole lot of people when he took over Twitter. And others, particularly those who were responsible for guardrails around the platform simply left. That has made the platform a train wreck next to a dumpster fire as it has become to every right wing nut job and Nazi among others. That in turn, along with Elon’s antics, have driven away advertisers. But the guardrails may, and I stress may be about to go back into place. Tech Crunch is reporting that Twitter is doing some hiring:
Nearly two years after the layoffs across X’s trust, safety and security teams, Elon Musk’s social media company is now trying to hire new employees to help moderate content and secure its platform, according to X’s official job listings.
In the last month, X posted two dozen job openings evenly split across its safety and cybersecurity teams.
The jobs on X’s safety team range from director of strategic response on X’s safety team to government affairs managers. On its cybersecurity teams, X is hiring several security engineers and a threat intelligence specialist.
I personally think that this might be a Hail Mary from Elon. Assuming that he isn’t actively trying to destroy Twitter. Which to be frank, I wouldn’t put it past him to do that. He’s got to make money somehow. And having the appearance of a group of humans who are capable of moderating content on Twitter would help with that as Elon could use that to appease and attract advertisers back to the platform. And in turn make money that way. There’s also the fact that the EU is demanding that Elon moderates content on Twitter. And perhaps he doesn’t want to fight the EU because Elon knows that he’d lose.
The question is, who would want to work for Elon given his behaviour to date? I sure as Hell wouldn’t want to. And I suspect that he might have difficulty filling these roles as a result of that.
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