The significant workforce reductions at X heavily impacted the Trust and Safety (T&S) teams responsible for content moderation.

With a reduction in human moderation staff, the platform has become more reliant on automated systems. The layoffs changed manual reviews from a core part of the moderation process to a barely functional system reserved for rare exceptions. For the average user, the appeals process is now an automated loop that is difficult or impossible to escalate to a human.

Consequently, it's now harder than ever to have a nuanced manual review and revert suspensions.

Permissioned social media is a broken construct that'll always be susceptible to this BS. That's why we #Nostr

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