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How Musk apos;s Twitter Takeover Could Endanger Vulnerable Users

2023-01-18T21:16:36Z

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Twitter rights experts and overseas hubs hit by staff cull * Musk says moderation is a priority as experts voice alarm * Activists fear rising censorship, surveillance on platform By Avi Asher-Schapiro LOS ANGELES, Nov 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Elon Musk's mass layoffs at Twitter are putting government critics and opposition figures around the world at risk, digital rights activists and groups warn, as the company slashes staff including human rights experts and workers in regional hubs. Experts fear that changing priorities and a loss of experienced workers may mean Twitter falls in line with more requests from officials worldwide to curb critical speech and hand over data on users. "Twitter is cutting the very teams that were supposed to focus on making the platform safer for its users," said Allie Funk, research director for technology and democracy at Freedom House, a U.S.-based nonprofit focused on rights and democracy. Twitter fired about half its 7,500 staff last week, following a $44 billion buyout by Musk. Musk has said "Twitter's strong commitment to content moderation remains absolutely unchanged". Last week, its head of safety Yoel Roth said the platform's ability to manage harassment and hate speech was not materially impacted by the staff changes. Roth has since left Twitter. However, rights experts have raised concerns over the loss of specialist rights and ethics teams, and media reports of heavy cuts in regional headquarters including in Asia and [https://codex.corvaadslorebook.com/index.php?title=User:LeighEdye07 Lawyer Law Firm in Turkey] Africa. There are also fears of a rise in misinformation and harassment with the loss of staff with knowledge of local contexts and languages outside of the United States. "The risk is especially acute for users based in the Global Majority (people of color and those in the Global South) and in conflict zones," said Marlena Wisniak, a [https://www.wiklundkurucuk.com/in/ Lawyer Law Firm istanbul] who worked at Twitter on human rights and governance issues until August. Twitter did not respond to a request for comment. The impact of staff cuts is already being felt, said Nighat Dad, a Pakistani digital rights activist who runs a helpline for women facing harassment on social media. When female political dissidents, journalists, or activists in Pakistan are impersonated online or experience targeted harassment such as false accusations of blasphemy that could put their lives at risk, Dad's group has a direct line to Twitter. But since Musk took over, Twitter has not been as responsive to her requests for urgent takedowns of such high-risk content, said Dad, who also sits on Twitter's Trust and Safety Council of independent rights advisors. "I see Elon's tweets and I think he just wants Twitter to be a place for the U.S. audience, and not something safe for the rest of the world," she said. CENSORSHIP RISKS As Musk reshapes Twitter, he faces tough questions over how to handle takedown demands from authorities - especially in countries where officials have demanded the removal of content by journalists and activists voicing criticism. Musk wrote on Twitter in May that his preference would be to "hew close to the laws of countries in which Twitter operates" when deciding whether to comply. Twitter's latest transparency report said in the second half of 2021, it received a record of nearly 50,000 legal takedown demands to remove content or block it from being viewed within a requester's country. Many targeted illegal content such as child abuse or scams but others aimed to repress legitimate criticism, said the report, which noted a "steady increase" in demands against journalists and news outlets. It said it ignored almost half of demands, as the tweets were not found to have breached Twitter's rules. Digital rights campaigners said they feared the gutting of specialist rights and regional staff might lead to the platform agreeing to a larger number of takedowns. "Complying with local laws doesn't always end up respecting human rights," said Peter Micek, general counsel for the digital rights group Access Now. "To make these tough calls you need local contexts, you need eyes on the ground." Experts were closely watching whether Musk will continue to pursue a high profile legal challenge Twitter launched last July, challenging the Indian government over orders to take down content. Twitter users on the receiving end of takedown demands are nervous. Yaman Akdeniz, a [https://www.wiklundkurucuk.com/py/ Turkish Lawyer Law Firm] academic and digital rights activist who the country's courts have several times attempted to silence through takedown demands, said Twitter had previously ignored a large number of such orders. "My concern is that, in the absence of a specialized human rights team, that may change," he said. SURVEILLANCE CONCERNS The change of leadership and lay-offs also sparked fears over surveillance in places where Twitter has been a key tool for activists and civil society to mobilize. Social media platforms can be required to hand over private user data by a subpoena, court order, or other legal processes. Twitter has said it will push back on requests that are "incomplete or improper", with its latest transparency report showing it refused or narrowed the scope of more than half of account information demands in the second half of 2021. Concerns are acute in Nigeria, where activists organized a 2020 campaign against police brutality using the Twitter hashtag #EndSARS, referring to the force's much-criticized and now disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad. Now users may think twice about using the platform, said Adeboro Odunlami, a Nigerian digital rights [https://www.wiklundkurucuk.com/dk/ Turkish Lawyer Law Firm]. "Can the government obtain data from Twitter about me?" she asked. "Can I rely on Twitter to build my civic campaign?" ELECTION VIOLENCE Twitter teams outside the United States have suffered heavy cuts, with media reports saying that 90% of employees in India were sacked along with most staff in Mexico and almost all of the firm's sole African office in Ghana. That has raised fears over online misinformation and hate speech around upcoming elections in Tunisia in December, Nigeria in February, and Turkey in July - all of which have seen deaths related to elections or protests. Up to 39 people were killed in election violence in Nigeria's 2019 presidential elections, civil society groups said. Hiring content moderators that speak local languages "is not cheap ... but it can help you from not contributing to genocide," said Micek, referring to online hate speech that activists said led to violence against the Rohingya in Myanmar and ethnic minorities in Ethiopia. Platforms say they have invested heavily in moderation and fact-checking. Kofi Yeboah, a digital rights researcher based in Accra, Ghana, said sacked Twitter employees told him the firm's entire African content moderation team had been laid off. "Content moderation was a problem before and so now one of the main concerns is the upcoming elections in countries like Nigeria," said Yeboah. "We are going to have a big problem with handling hate speech, misinformation and disinformation." 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Turkey apos;s MNG Airlines To Go Public On NYSE

2023-01-18T09:39:02Z

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Bill Gates Wins Approval To Buy Huge Swath Of North Dakota Farmland

2023-01-17T20:29:46Z

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RELATED ARTICLES Share this article Share About 2100 acres of land were sold in the deal, AgWeek reported. In a curious move, the Campbell family in February filed a partnership name certificate with the North Dakota secretary of state naming their farming operation the Red River Trust - the same name as Gates' firm. But an attorney for Gates' firm wrote to the attorney general´s office that the Campbells registered the name without his knowledge. The Campbells did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Red River Trust reportedly acquired six parcels of land in Grafton, ND, near the borders of Minnesota and Canada last November. The land is apparently part of Campbell Farms (above) North Dakota's Agriculture Commissioner, Republican Doug Goehring, previously said that many people feel they are being exploited by the ultra-rich who buy land but do not necessarily share the state's values. 'I've gotten a big earful on this from clear across the state, it's not even from that neighborhood,' Goehring told KFYR-TV. 'Those people are upset, but there are others that are just livid about this.' Corporations are exempted from the ownership ban if the land is necessary 'for residential or commercial development; the siting of buildings, plants, facilities, industrial parks, or similar business or industrial purposes of the corporation or limited liability company; or for uses supportive of or ancillary to adjacent non agricultural land for the benefit of both land parcels,' the law reads. It's not the first test for a statute that was passed in 1932. A federal judge in 2018 ruled the law constitutional after a conservative farm group argued that it limits business options for producers and interferes with interstate commerce by barring out-of-state corporations from being involved in North Dakota's farm industry. North Dakota Republican Governor Doug Burgum, a former Microsoft executive whose campaign received $100,000 from Microsoft co-founder Gates when Burgum first won in 2016, declined to comment on the farmland sale. North Dakota Attorney General Drew Wrigley issued a letter to the trust Tuesday asking officials to confirm plans for use of the land and whether the company meets any of the exceptions to the state's laws The tech billionaire had previously bought up 242,000 acres of farmland in 18 states - and 268,984 of multi-use land in 19 states in total, making him the biggest agricultural landowner in the US, though far short of the biggest overall landowner in the country The Republican governor stayed down the middle when asked his opinion of the anti-corporate farming law, which he and the Legislature expanded in 2019 to allow second cousins in the mix of ownership. 'The governor strongly supports family farms and is open to discussions about cutting red tape that puts North Dakota farmers at a disadvantage compared with neighboring states and ensuring that our ranchers and farmers can succeed and grow their operations, helping rural communities to thrive,' Burgum spokesman Mike Nowatzki said. Gates already has an impressive land portfolio. As of 2021, his largest holdings in the U.S. included 69,071 acres in Louisiana, 47,927 acres in Arkansas, 25,750 acres in Arizona, 20,588 acres in Nebraska and 16,097 in Washington state. But even then, Gates didn't rank in the Top 100 of private landowners overall in the U.S. - when considering owners of land of all types, not just agricultural. The title for largest landholdings overall goes to U.S. businessman John Malone, chairman of Liberty Media, who owns 2.2 million acres. 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2023-01-17T20:26:26Z

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