Mainstream media outlets expressed concern over Twitter being unable to “monitor” the midterm elections due to Elon Musk laying off several hundred workers.
The Heritage Foundation's Jake Denton breaks down some of the biggest changes that Elon Musk is implementing at Twitter on 'The Evening Edit.'
"The scaled-back content moderation has raised concerns among employees on Twitter’s Trust and Safety team, who believe the company will be short-handed in enforcing policies in the run-up to the U.S. midterm election on Nov. 8.
"The most important thing that Twitter employees want to stress is the company is a nightmare right now and you cannot work there. And the website is built on sticks and it might fall apart. It’s a house of cards. If it falls apart by Tuesday, we’re in trouble in terms of getting election information out there," Collins said.
"The timing of this right before the midterm elections, if you think back to 2020, on Election Day and Election Week there were all these tweets, all these viral videos that kept alleging to show voter fraud, voter fraud, voter fraud. Most of them, once they were fact-checked, once we looked into them, all proved to be bogus.
"I think, rightly, post-2016, Twitter started playing a much more active role. The problem is it seems that Elon seems to be fairly contemptuous of that role and a lot of his free speech protestations aren’t really about protecting free speech. It’s really about trying to put his thumb on the scale for a particular type of political preference that he and some of his cohort have," Goldman said.
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