New Delhi, Sep 3 (IANS) Twitter’s formidable plan to deal with extremism on its platform went for a toss when Tesla CEO Elon Musk introduced shopping for it, and in months after that, the well being analysis staff disappeared, from 15 staff to simply two, the media reported.

Twitter had partnered with Moonshot, an organization that analyses violent extremists, to start a challenge referred to as ‘Redirect’ to curb the unfold of dangerous content material on its platform.

According to The Verge, “the objective was to maneuver the corporate from merely reacting to dangerous accounts and posts to proactively guiding customers towards higher behaviour”.

However, earlier than the challenge might see the sunshine of the day, Musk in April introduced to purchase the corporate for $44 billion, and all hell broke unfastened.

“Shortly afterwards, staff who’d been main the Moonshot partnership left. And within the months since Musk signed the deal, the well being analysis staff has all however evaporated, going from 15 staffers to simply two,” the report stated late on Friday.

The challenge sought to grasp and handle consumer behaviours.

“Instead of specializing in designating dangerous accounts or content material, we search to grasp how customers discover dangerous group content material in accounts after which to redirect these efforts,” learn an inside doc.

Multiple former researchers instructed The Verge that the turmoil related to Musk’s bid to buy the corporate “was a breaking level and led them to resolve to pursue different work”.

Some staff who remained had been allegedly instructed to “deprioritise Redirect in favour of tasks associated to bots and spam”, as Musk needed to know the precise variety of spam accounts on the platform.

Twitter has but to react to the report.

Another The Verge report claimed this week that Twitter deliberate to monetise grownup content material on its platform this yr, by permitting grownup creators to promote subscriptions on the micro-blogging platform, and develop into worthwhile in a jiffy.

(Except for the headline, the remainder of this IANS article is un-edited)

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