To his credit, Dorsey seems to at least acknowledge the things at stake. It's a big contrast to zuck.
I dated a girl who worked on a moderation team at FB 2-3 yrs ago, as the fake news problem started getting traction. They had a serious smokescreen of corporate sounding names for the teams, roles and tasks. The tasks were very obviously editing, fact checking, and such... Much of it politically oriented. Meanwhile, they seemed to be in knots trying to make their obviously journalistic job seem like subcategories of spam or abusive IM related jobs. They didn't hire journalists (even though they are cheap and plentiful).
Twitter at least recognizes that they're the news, they're journalism, they're political.
That doesn't/won't necessarily/probably lead to anything useful, but there's an honesty in it that I respect.
I dated a girl who worked on a moderation team at FB 2-3 yrs ago, as the fake news problem started getting traction. They had a serious smokescreen of corporate sounding names for the teams, roles and tasks. The tasks were very obviously editing, fact checking, and such... Much of it politically oriented. Meanwhile, they seemed to be in knots trying to make their obviously journalistic job seem like subcategories of spam or abusive IM related jobs. They didn't hire journalists (even though they are cheap and plentiful).
Twitter at least recognizes that they're the news, they're journalism, they're political.
That doesn't/won't necessarily/probably lead to anything useful, but there's an honesty in it that I respect.