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How far have we come from a reductive "they did it to me so it's bad" Musk to "it's so complicated I'll tell you when I can, trust me" Musk.

It was always complicated. It's very hard to see how sacking 75% of the workforce made it better.

Is there any reason to believe his ground truth problem was rightist libertarian nuts, sexual abusers, trolls and Nazism got shadowbanned and now, he can't escape the "why" part?

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For one thing, reading Yoel's comments in the article, he now sees all the existing systems that made the shadowbannimg work. At least according to the words attributed to the former head of safety there, it IS complicated.

> At least according to the words attributed to the former head of safety there, it IS complicated.

Yoel is talking about telling people WHY their content was actioned. Such removal reasons are not categorized according to Twitter's rules, they are stored in free-form text notes. So sure, assigning a rule to each of those would take time.

But it should take zero time to place a "demoted or removed" status on content so that the account owner can see its true status.

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