Half of Twitter's staff have been sacked in the last few weeks. The company has also laid off a lot of contractors who work on content moderation. Musk wants to set up a council to adjudicate on what should stay up and what should be taken off. But there is no sign of that yet, so people are worried about bad moderation.
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