Trolls on Twitter - Trolled podcast, BBC World Service

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2023-07-03

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Since the world's richest man Elon Musk bought Twitter last year, more than half the workforce has been sacked and scores of ...
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  • When the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, bought Twitter, the company was thrown into chaos.

  • I'm looking for something that's like, broadly, as broadly inclusive as possible, that's as trusted as possible as a system, and.

  • I hope we are successful in that regard.

  • So the social media platform's employees are due to find any minute now whether they still have a job.

  • I try to log in and my email is just not working anymore.

  • And that's when I knew that I.

  • Had been laid off.

  • It's not so much the concern of, you know, the hellscape right now, it's the chaos.

  • Elon Musk says that he will begin restoring previously banned Twitter accounts.

  • For the past few months, I've been investigating what that chaos means for people that use Twitter.

  • Current and former employees have been telling me their concerns that under Musk's leadership, the social media site can no longer protect users from trolls and other harmful content.

  • When I published my report, I caught Musk's attention.

  • He tweeted, sorry for turning Twitter from nurturing paradise into place that has trolls and have to admit, trolls are kind of fun.

  • And it wasn't just his attention I caught.

  • An army of troll accounts joined in and a deluge of hate came my way.

  • And it's not just me who's received more abuse since the Twitter takeover.

  • I'm Mariana Spring, the BBC's disinformation and social media correspondent, and this is Trolled from BBC trending.

  • In this series, we're investigating how people are targeted and abused on social media and who's behind the trolling from Myanmar to Brazil.

  • But first, we're looking at Twitter itself and how after the richest person in the world bought the company, hate is thriving.

  • The trolls are back.