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Less Musk's caustic image and more the lack of moderation due to the layoffs meant a rise in content that advertisers did not want to advertise next to.
by mmiyer 4y ago
Less Musk's caustic image and more the lack of moderation due to the layoffs meant a rise in content that advertisers did not want to advertise next to.
- spookthesunset 4y agoThere was an older podcast from Darknet Diaries[0] that was about a very popular chat app called “Kik”. Kik was targeted at teens and younger, with an estimated install base of 1 out of every 3 American teenagers. Long story short they were bought by some holding company that completely neglected the platform and stopped any kind of moderation, DMCA notice or anything else. The result? It became a huge magnet for trading child porn. While listening to this podcast I thought of how Elon gutted twitter to the bone and probably fired entire teams designed to deal with this kind of content… [0] https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/93/ https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/93/