Twitter has deleted @TwitterSafety’s tweets and a webpage detailing its new policy to prevent accounts from promoting other social media platforms (Molly White/@molly0xfff)

Molly White / @molly0xfff:
Twitter has deleted @TwitterSafety’s tweets and a webpage detailing its new policy to prevent accounts from promoting other social media platforms  —  policy page and tweets announcing it are now gone. archive links for posterity: thread: https://web.archive.org/… policy page: https://web.archive.org/… https://twitter.com/…

Molly White / @molly0xfff:
Twitter has deleted @TwitterSafety’s tweets and a webpage detailing its new policy to prevent accounts from promoting other social media platforms  —  policy page and tweets announcing it are now gone. archive links for posterity: thread: https://web.archive.org/… policy page: https://web.archive.org/… https://twitter.com/…

Molly White / @molly0xfff:
Twitter has deleted @TwitterSafety’s tweets and a webpage detailing its new policy to prevent accounts from promoting other social media platforms  —  policy page and tweets announcing it are now gone. archive links for posterity: thread: https://web.archive.org/… policy page: https://web.archive.org/… https://twitter.com/…

Brian Fung / CNN:
Twitter deletes @TwitterSafety’s thread and a webpage detailing its new policy to prevent accounts from promoting other social media platforms  —  Twitter deleted its controversial new policy on Sunday evening that had banned links to certain other social media platforms, less than 24 hours after the policy’s initial introduction.

@twittersafety:
After Musk said that major new policies will go to a vote, @TwitterSafety posts a poll on whether accounts primarily promoting other platforms should be allowed  —  Should we have a policy preventing the creation of or use of existing accounts for the main purpose of advertising other social media platforms?

Eleanor Cummins / Wired:
Holding platforms accountable for algorithms promoting self-harm is hard because research linking mental health and social media doesn’t establish causation  —  A British court ruled that teenager Molly Russell died in part because of online content—but holding platforms accountable is complicated.