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In an update on its Transparency Reporting, Twitter announced in a blog post that it required users to remove 6,586,109 pieces of content because it violated Twitter Rules in the first half of 2022.
"People in this #BlockTheBlue pressure campaign are losers and goons," Sweeney tweeted to open his rant. "They're the cool kids from junior high who worked to exclude we nerds from cool kid events, plus the losers who joined in to gain cred. The elite-only verification system sucked, been criticizing it since 2018."
Twitter, under Elon Musk, has quietly rolled back its policy on deadnaming and misgendering trans people. Deadnaming is the process of referring to a person by the name they used before they transitioned. This is harmful as it encourages hate against the community and can contribute to mental health conditions, such as depression and suicidality
Twitter altered its "hateful conduct policy" Tuesday to lift its ban on "misgendering" and "deadnaming" transgender people.
When the media loses its ability to offer verifiable, trusted information, the public loses its ability to judge the actions of the powerful – particularly governments and large corporations.