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Social-media platforms must learn that if you don’t protect your workers and users, you have no company at all.

Disinformation researchers have spent years asking Twitter to remove toxic and fake posts. After Elon Musk’s staff cuts, there’s hardly anyone to talk to.

Internal Twitter Slack messages show advertisers asking about the increase in hate speech on the platform, and the impacts of the site’s recent layoffs.

The civil servants and volunteers who run elections across the country have had two years to learn from 2020 and prepare.

Free Press Action VP Matt Wood talks to Tech Policy Press about how the elections could shape the legislative debate over tech issues.

Experts say queer and trans people are likely to bear the brunt of the harm.

Many companies are concerned about whether their ads will be placed next to racist or otherwise hateful speech.

Twitter’s advertising business has already started deteriorating under Musk.

Researchers who study disinformation said most efforts to stoke doubt about election results had failed to take root.

While Musk is trying to placate advertisers, his actions are jeopardizing brand and user safety on the platform, where hate speech has soared.