“Current State Assessment”
Alethea’s “Current State Assessment” of Twitter is scathing.
The analysis stresses that the social media platform’s Trust and Safety executives were well-meaning but also overwhelmed and unskilled. They didn’t have the resources they needed, it says.
The company was always on the defense when it came to misinformation, whether from “QAnon” or “coronavirus misinformation,” it claims. As a result, “historically marginalized groups” are vulnerable.
Alethea’s analysts conclude that the underlying problem was that “Twitter does not have a traditional threat intelligence capacity that would better position the company to be proactive on misinformation and disinformation.” Twitter, in particular, lacks “geographic expertise and foreign language capabilities.”
Another serious problem, says Alethea, is that “Twitter is not fully taking advantage of” its partnerships, such as with Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO), the only non-media partner Alethea names.
Previous Twitter Files and Facebook Files show that the DHS had asked SIO, which is led by a “former” CIA Fellow, Renee DiResta, and three other organizations to lead a “public-private” partnership to urge greater social media censorship of alleged misinformation relating to the 2020 elections and Covid.
“Neither I nor Alethea have a relationship with SIO,” Kaplan said.
READ ALETHEA’S “CURRENT STATE ASSESSMENT” HERE:
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