"Twitter's Latest Updates: Poop Emoji Auto-Replies and Open Source Code for Tweet Recommendations"

Twitter's press email address, which has been inactive since November, is now automatically responding to journalists' inquiries with a poop emoji. Elon Musk, who bought Twitter in October, announced the new policy via tweet. Musk describes himself as a "free speech absolutist," but his moves to weaken content moderation practices and reinstate accounts that had been suspended for rule violations have fueled safety and misinformation concerns. This isn't the first time Musk has de-prioritized external communications at a company he owns, and he has a history of using the poop emoji in serious matters.