According to two people familiar with the matter, hundreds of employees have been cut off from access to the company's content moderation system.
According to people familiar with the matter, access to the site's content moderation tools was limited to 15 people out of a team of hundreds.
It is not known how many people were affected by the Trust and Safety team. Only a small group of people have keys to the systems that need human intervention. Tools for suspending or banning accounts have been unavailable since last week.
Even though a smaller team has access to the tools, the company still enforces rules at scale.
In the midst of a corporate transition, any company should be doing this.
Musk said on Friday that a new moderation council would be formed on the micro-blogging site. There will be no major content decisions before the council convenes.
Several workers who moderated content on the site were concerned about how the site would address misinformation related to the upcoming elections.
The Washington Post reported last week that Edward Perez, the former product director for civic integrity, was worried that the shakeup in leadership would make it hard for the service to keep up with moderation.
Musk said he would remove bans on some users. His first move after taking control of the company was to fire the woman who banned Donald Trump. Several executives were let go on Thursday. I don't know if Trump will be welcomed back to the site.
Hate speech spiked in the hours after news of Musk's acquisition as right-wing users cheered the billionaire on, according to a report.
It's free speech. "Liberal tears," said Rep. Jim Jordan.
On its website, you can read the full report.
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