"That was a disinformation tactic that was intended primarily to disenfranchise Muslims and dissuade them from voting, and it wasn't true," Yoel Roth, the social media platform's then-head of site integrity in charge of elections, recalled in an interview. "So Twitter adapted its policies to say that advancing that type of false voter suppression narrative is a violation of the site's rules, and the posts would be removed, and the users would be sanctioned."
"Twitter, for one, no longer really exists. The platform is now called X, renamed by billionaire Elon Musk soon after he paid $44 billion for it in 2022. Musk promptly laid off half the company's employees, including most of the trust and safety teams Roth led-teams that kept misleading and harmful content off the platform."
Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, has laid off more than 20,000 employees since November 2022-several of whom worked on content moderation.
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