Twitter unites its anti-spam and misinformation teams

Twitter has merged its anti-spam and misinformation prevention teams to create a single large division on its platform that will perform both functions. The decision was made after accusations against him by Petr Zatkothe former head of social media security who mentioned that “it poses a risk to national security” and the legal battle the company is having with Elon Musk canceling the purchase of the company.

According to the internal email provided to the agency Reuterssocial networking company Twitter will call this new group “Products and services for health” (GPS).

Subsequently, Twitter confirmed the consolidation of this new group as part of the integration of its two previous divisions and mentioned that Ella Irvin, the firm’s vice president of product, will lead the team. However, he did not dare to provide any details on how the two former joint working units would operate or how the change would affect disinformation and spam online. social network.

Internal restructuring of Twitter

In a statement published on the portal TechCrunch, Twitter mentioned the following: “The reorganization reflects our continued commitment to prioritizing and focusing our teams on achieving our goals. Stopping unscrupulous players and being more transparent about how we maintain a healthy platform while helping to promote and nurture diverse mindsets and dialogues remains the foundation of everything we do and how we organize our teams.”.

Report Reuters mentions that workers and ex-employees felt that the restructuring of the platform could not help at all, because the causes of the problem of multiple spam accounts Twitter “historically they have been deeper than the team can handle on their own”.

Twitter called “a threat to national security”

At the beginning of 2022 Peter “Maj” Zatkoformer head of security Twitterreported to the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice USA inadequate management of spam accounts on the platform. In the mentioned report, which appeared last Tuesday, August 23, Zatko indicates that in 2019 he moved from reporting total users per month to daily monetized users to ignore the report on the real number of fake accounts on the platform.

In addition, the former head of security reported that Twitter didn’t worry about the number of bots on his social network and from what he mentions despite the fact that “incentivized to accurately ‘detect’ or report the total number of spambots on the platform”. It is this reason that is the argument used Elon Muskthe mogul behind Tesla Motors and SpaceX to reverse his intention to buy the company that got them involved in the legal battle that is currently taking place.

At the beginning of this week, Twitter confirmed that it is testing a new badge for all those users who can verify their phone numbers associated with an account, with the goal of separating human users from bot accounts.

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