"Free speech"

We had an ongoing project studying network communication structures within social media groups. The primary goal was to identify patterns of misinformation dissemination. We lost our ability to poll the API and pull messages to build up our data sets to work with. The cost to hit the API used to be free for a limited rate for researchers, but the new doofus in charge demanded a massive rate to get even a reasonable quantity of data so we had to fold up shop. We just routed the students to other projects, but it's one more way to isolate and control the network so the dictator can be in charge however they like.

Why does anyone still use this platform, anyway?

There's been a steady exodus of news and legal people onto Threads. Techie people seem to be moving more to Mastodon.

Once the automated posting tools catch up with the Threads and Mastodon APIs, there will be less reason to check anything relevant on Twitter.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Meanwhile, X's content moderation efforts have continued to be heavily scrutinized as X struggles to prove that it's containing the spread of misinformation and hate speech under Musk's new policies.

Most recently, X CEO Linda Yaccarino had to step in—amid outcry from X advertisers and staff—to remove a pro-Hitler post that went viral on the platform, The Information reported.

X later claimed that the post was removed because it broke platform rules, not because of the backlash, but X's efforts to proactively monitor antisemitic speech seemingly failed there.

And nobody's sure why X's global escalation team delayed action, although it's possible that they feared that removing the post might be considered censorship and incite the ire of Musk, the "free speech absolutist."

In February, the CITR published a letter, warning that Musk charging high fees for access to Twitter data that was previously free "will disrupt critical projects from thousands of journalists, academics, and civil society actors worldwide who study some of the most important issues impacting our societies today."

Reuters reported that CITR's survey, "for the first time," importantly quantifies the number of studies canceled since these fees were imposed.

The original article contains 494 words, the summary contains 191 words. Saved 61%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!

Reminds me of security research in the late 90's.

You may admire, but from afar

Can't have hate speech and misinformation running rampant if nobody is keeping track of the data.