"Misinformation (particularly about the OTW) with the potential to harm or mislead others", if you don't define publicly clearly what would be considered misinformation about the OTW, this will be taken advantage of. Maybe not now and with this administration, but there will come others and this policy must be blinded againts any internal medling.
The rest is all fine (altough it'd be good for you to remember that fandom is political, we wouldn't have racism problems if it was something outside of fandom), but that will be taken advantage of if not everyone is on the same page.
We appreciate your concerns; the line about addressing misinformation is one we discussed a lot internally while this policy was being formed because, as you say, there is a potential for it to be taken advantage of.
Ultimately, we decided to leave it as a part of the policy because preventing the spread of harmful misinformation is important to us. Our intent is to only use it when failure to invoke it could result in harming of irrelevant parties. For example, incorrect information in comment section that could lead to commenters harassing uninvolved individuals (who may otherwise be perceived as involved) on other sites outside of our control.
It does not alleviate my concern in any way, seeing as there's no public record of how it's going to be handled or any reassurance the moderation team is going to be held accountable as the starting position of the OTW in this is a long lost trust and the organisation's needs to understand the trust needs to be recovered.
We discussed some of the details of how moderators will be held accountable in our reply to azarias above. And as we said there, we're aware that a lack of transparency by the OTW has indeed been a problem and has lost us trust from many users. We're committed to earning it back.
The only way we can build back that trust is by continually acting in a way that is fair and abides by what we've said. This post is part of our commitment to transparency: providing users with the guidelines that we work under and responding up front to questions and concerns about our work. However, we're aware that it will be a long journey uphill from here.
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