For several days, Twitter seems to have some issues with its automated copyrighted content removal system. Some users indeed post films in short videos in the form of a thread, and the platform has trouble identifying them…
It seemed obvious that the loss of more than half of its staff, including layoffs and resignations, as well as the thanks of 4,400 external service providers would eventually affect the social network.
Manual moderation?
Before Elon Musk took over as head of Twitter, the platform’s copyright infringement policy was well-rehearsed, automatically removing all objectionable content. Now, more and more users are posting films in their entirety, and while most are taken down, the way of doing it and the time taken by the social network to do so suggests significant internal difficulties.
As the media explains Forbesusually a message saying “ this media cannot be displayed appears on copyrighted content: only the media is removed, but the account remains active. For the past few days, accounts publishing films have been completely suspended; it is very likely that these suspensions are made manually by employees of the company.
Many accounts posting films have been taken down, after the work remained online much longer than usual. In some cases, the feature film is still available on Twitter at the time of writing these lines, this is for example the case of the animated film Free Birds dating from 2013.
The future of Twitter is unclear
The Twitter 2.0 wanted by Elon Musk with employees working in a “hardcore” way seems for the moment far from reality. The modification of the Twitter Blue subscription system, increasing it to 8 dollars per month in exchange for certification, has for example sown discord on the platform. In question, users mentioned taking advantage of the blue dot to spread false information.
If the billionaire says he is ready to hire new people in order to shape the social network as he sees fit, it seems obvious that moderation will not be one of his priorities.
Sources: Mashable, Forbes
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