New Game Tasks You With Running Twitter, Good Luck – Kotaku

Social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram are massive beasts that are hard to control, moderate, and keep profitable. Balancing user safety, privacy, ad revenue, employee mental health, and more is tricky. Luckily, you can find out just how tricky it is in a new free web game that essentially tasks you with running Twitter’s Trust and Safety Team.The Top 10 Most-Played Games On Steam Deck: August 2023 EditionCreated by Techdirt, Trust & Safety Tycoon simulates all the decisions and events that can happen while trying to keep Yapper—a Twitter-like social media platform—free from spam, harassment, misinformation, and conspiracies. I became aware of the game via the excellent Garbage Day newsletter and decided to see if I could do a better job at keeping a social media platform free from Nazis and bigots than Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg.My first go-around I was focused on making sure we protected our users and their privacy, while also clamping down on misinformation and dangerous accounts. However, I was quickly fired, as I was straining our moderation team’s resources and wasn’t bringing in enough ad revenue. Screenshot: Techdirt / KotakuMy second attempt went better, as I occasionally did things I didn’t agree
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