Stephen Coates launches Twitter.now to turn moderation into a user setting
Operation Bluebird says its web app has a few hundred users, a planned trust system and an unresolved trademark fight with X.
By RuntimeWire Staff · Published
Primary source: Business Insider
Why it matters
Coates is testing whether social-media moderation can become a user preference instead of a single platform-wide decision. The experiment depends on two unsettled questions: whether AI can score disputed speech reliably and whether Operation Bluebird can legally call the result Twitter.
Stephen Coates, Twitter's former first trademark counsel, put Twitter.now into early testing on August 27th, Business Insider reported, giving a few hundred users an early look at his plan to rebuild the old short-post network around adjustable content moderation.…