> quick way to report a Tweet or FB post that spreads disinformation would already help a lot.
If they've been doing so much work, and it's just the "moderation is hard" problem that has slowed them, why do all of their sites make it so convoluted to report content?
I think they are trying to narrow what can be flagged. I think they want to avoid people just flagging posts they do not agree with. There is a quote "History is a set of lies agreed upon." To me you could replace history with social media and the quote would be true. Or at least thats the lie I agree with.
https://twitter.com/dgellow/status/1274398162711691266?s=20
Also, every single time Twitter responded that they won’t do anything about the reported content (again, I’m talking about clear old school racist content).
Then they got back to you, saying they disagree with your judgement.
That's a lot of "moderation is hard" work and they're doing their job. However much you might disagree with their verdict, they're not hiding reporting functionality or making reports unduly difficult or ignoring reports.
I don't know what you mean by that. I live in Germany, I used the normal report button, I haven't picked anything special.
In any case, given my experience, I will definitely not use that feature anymore, it's too much effort to just report something that should not be on the platform. The fact that the report button is available and easy to find isn't enough for the platform to self regulate if the rest of the process is broken.
When you reported the tweet, you picked the "covered by Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz" option, which means you're demanding that Twitter comply with Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz to act on a violation covered under the German law.
It's clear you live in Germany because Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz reports are only available in Germany, and given that Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz reports have a legally defined scope that only applies in Germany, I'd guess that it's treated differently from reports for regular violations (like "It's suspicious or spam" or "It's abusive or harmful").
Other regular options like the "abusive" one is much shorter and easier than picking out sections of a law.