They wanted it to be everything most social media struggles to be: positive, safe and inclusive.
And as the user base of the platform now known as X splinters, so does Black Twitter, the community of Black users that was a big part of Twitter’s growth and culture.
Legacy social media platforms have repeatedly failed to anticipate how their products might be manipulated or misused until something goes wrong.
Alphonzo Terrell, co-founder of the social media app Spill, demonstrates how the platform works during an interview with CNN.
CNNEven with AI content moderation models, other social media companies often fail to catch harmful content that makes it onto their platforms.
Persons:
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Organizations:
New, New York CNN, Twitter, Elon, CNN, Spill, Washington Post, HBO, Showtime, YouTube, Intel, Cisco, Microsoft, NYU Stern Center for Business, Human, Apple, Kapor Center, Social, Mac Venture, Netflix, Disney, Amazon Prime, VH1, Pew Research Center, New York Times, California State University Fullerton
Locations:
New York, Los Angeles, Kenya, Spill, Georgia