Dispute between Tumblr CEO and transgender user breaks out in public, exposing confidential account identifiers.
Instead, he’s arguing with Tumblr users over an individual content moderation decision, which has sparked communitywide outcry and accusations of transphobia.
Aside from Elon Musk since he took over Twitter (now X), it’s uncommon to see the CEOs of social platforms commenting directly on individual content moderation decisions.
But no one on the trust and safety team was reassigned, so these moderation decisions likely weren’t impacted by the company shake-up.
However, Tumblr has a bad track record for content moderation decisions, especially those involving trans people.
“We did have an external contract moderator last year that was making transphobic moderation (and also selling moderation, criminally),” Mullenweg wrote on his blog.
