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Well, that is the specific outcome Elon wanted when he laid off three-quarters of the company. He very clearly stated that he didn't see the value of the "trust and safety" teams that would have been the ones to flag something like this down.

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This wouldn't have fallen within "trust and safety" purview. This should've been caught in even the most cursory of code reviews.

It seems this may have only affected the X on iOS App. [1] That greatly expands the range of possible causes. It also makes this quite odd in another way as well, because it suggests this was not a server side change.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39991312

Why wouldn't phishing fall under trust and safety? Perhaps not primarily - but it's definitely a trust and safety event.

They wouldn't "have been the ones to flag something like this down". It should've been caught long prior; the code shouldn't have been written, it shouldn't have survived code review, and it should've failed automated tests.

It's a trust and safety incident now, but it never should have been.

The trust and safety team was only responsible for censoring wrongthink

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