Elon Musk’s X platform, which used to be called Twitter, is now hiring people to stop fake news and spread “credible” stories about the election, even though the Tesla CEO said he planned to make the social media site more open to free speech.
A story from Just the News says that Twitter/X is looking for people to fill two jobs that are meant to protect “information integrity” as well as “civic conversations” on the social media site.
The candidates must be “passionate” with regard to “protecting users from global disinformation,” “fighting threats to online conversational health,” and “assisting individuals to locate trustworthy information online” concerning elections.
The report said that qualified candidates must also “have an in-depth comprehension of geopolitical, misinformation, and cybersecurity trends,” and that they should be fluent in Russian, Mandarin, or Cantonese.
Critics pointed out right away that the jobs were “censorship positions,” and that team leader Aaron Rodericks is a follower of “every high-level censorship supporter in the world” on rival platform BlueSky.
Leaders of anti-disinformation groups are said to be among the names Rodericks is following.
Kristen Ruby, a social media expert, noticed in February that the Musk-owned platform still had the misleading information policy that had just been changed “civic integrity misleading information policy.”
This gives Twitter/X the right to remove, censor, and name “content that may discourage participation,” as well as content that “misleads” about political processes, causes “confusion,” or has “satirical or humorous elements.”
In the Twitter documents, Rodericks was shown to be skeptical of the U.S. government’s claims of disinformation and foreign influence. He also said that the State Dept’s Global Engagement Center “doubled their budget by vastly overstating threats.”
Just the News asked Rodericks how he could be suspicious of GEC claims and do his job as a hiring manager. He said, “Be skeptical of all claims until they are proven with evidence.”
“GEC’s research on social media was done in a very bad way,” he said. “As a government organization, they have a bigger responsibility to be right about what they say.”
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