Elon Musk said Friday that Twitter intends to resume its premium service that will offer accounts of different colors next week, in a new move to improve service after the previous attempt failed.
This is the latest change in the social media platform that the CEO of the billionaire Tesla bought for $44 billion last month, which one day later said he would give "general apology" for suspended accounts and Will create more uncertainty for consumers.
Twitter had previously suspended the premium service, under which the Blue Check Label was provided to everyone who paid $ 8 per month under Musk, as there was a wave of fake accounts. In fact, the blue check was given to government agencies, corporations, celebrities and journalists who are confirmed by the platform to prevent the imitation.
"In the latest version, companies will get a gold check, governments will get gray checks, and those who pay for the service, whether they are celebrities or not, will get a blue check," Mask said.
"All the certified accounts will be manually verified before checking checks," he added that it was "painful, but necessary" and promised "long explanation" next week. He said the service was "temporarily starting" December 2.
Twitter stopped its renewed premium service just a few days after its inauguration this month when the accounts made pharmaceutical giant Eli Lily & Co., Nintendo, Lockheed Martin, and even Musk's own business Tesla and Various professional sports and political companies, including Space X, were imitated. statistics
This was just one change in the last two days. On Thursday, Musk said he would give "general amnesty" for suspended accounts, following the results of an online pool that he did about whether the accounts that did not violate the law or There are tremendous spams involved "should be restored.
Yes I got 72 % of the vote. Such online poles are anything other than scientific and can be easily affected by boats. Musk also used a use before restoring the account of former US President Donald Trump.
"People have spoken. Amnesty begins next week. Vox Popoli, Volks D, Musk tweeted using a Latin phrase on Thursday, which means" people's voice, God's voice. "
Online security experts have predicted that the move will increase harassment, hate speech and misinformation. It is also likely that the company will be put on a crash course with European regulators that are trying to stop harmful online content with strict new rules.
Zack Meyers, senior research fellow of the Center for European Reform Think Tank, said that online pool -based amnesty is a "discretionary approach" that is difficult to compromise with the "Digital Services Act", a new EU law which Application will begin. On the largest online platforms by mid -2023.
The law aims to protect Internet users from illegal content and reduce the spread of harmful but legal content. The mayors said that major social media platforms need to be "alert and aimed at implementing sanctions, which should be clearly written in fine print for consumers when signing up."
The UK is also working on its online security law.
"As long as the Musk rapidly moves to a more gentle administrative manner than the 'moving fast and brakes' point of view, it will be on the path to a collision with Brussels and London regulators," the mayors said.
European Union officials resorted to social media to highlight their problems. The Executive Commission of the Block of 27 countries published a report on Thursday, which found that Twitter took longer to evaluate hateful content and was removed less than 2021 this year.
The report was based on the data collected during the spring - before the Musk received Twitter - as part of the annual testing of the Block's Code of Conduct on the Invalid Information of the Online Platforms. He found that Twitter estimated only more than half of the information received within 24 hours about illegal hate speech, which is less than 82 % in 2021.
The data can be worse. Since assuming its responsibility, Musk has helped the company's 7,500 people, as well as a number of contractors responsible for the moderation of material. Many others, including the head of the company's trust and safety, have resigned.
The results of the recent removal and EU reviews on Twitter "are a cause for concern," the block commissioner for Justice, Didier Reynders, tweeted Thursday evening after meeting with Twitter executives at the company's European headquarters in Dublin.
At the meeting, Raders said he emphasized that "we expect Twitter to fulfill its volunteer promises and comply with the EU rules," including the Digital Services Act and Block Privacy Rules Which is called General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR.
Vera Jorova, another EU commissioner, tweeted Thursday evening that he was worried about the news that a "large number" of Twitter European staff had been fired.
"If you want to detect and take action effectively against #disinformation and propaganda, it requires resources," said Jorova. "Especially in the context of the Russian disinformation warfare."
