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Twitter’s former Trust and Safety head details the challenges facing decentralized social platforms


Yoel Roth shares concerns about the open social web's ability to combat misinformation, spam, and other illegal content.

Yoel Roth, previously the head of Twitter’s Trust and Safety, now at Match, is sharing his concerns about the future of the open social web and its ability to combat misinformation, spam, and other illegal content, like child sexual abuse material (CSAM). On the podcast revolution.social with @Rabble, Roth pointed out that the efforts at building more democratically run online communities across the open social web are also those that have the fewest resources when it comes to moderation tools. Even Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey fell victim, retweeting posts from a Russian actor who claimed to be Crystal Johnson, a Black woman from New York.

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