Twitter Abruptly Dissolves Safety Council Moments Before Meeting – Twitter dissolved its Trust and Safety Council on Monday, just moments before it was supposed to meet with company personnel. The company founded the council in 2016 to address issues such as hate speech, child exploitation, suicide, and self-harm. According to multiple members, Twitter notified the group through email that it was disbanding soon before the Monday meeting was scheduled to take place.
The council members, who provided the Associated Press and other media agencies with Twitter screenshots of the email, spoke anonymously out of fear of being punished. “Our work to make Twitter a safe, informative place will be moving faster and more aggressively than ever before and we will continue to welcome your ideas going forward about how to achieve this goal,” said the email, which was signed “Twitter.”
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The news seemed to exacerbate the turmoil that has plagued the corporation since Musk’s takeover. Also on Monday, it was claimed that Twitter’s former top safety official, Yoel Roth, was forced to evacuate his home due to mounting personal attacks, including those from Musk. On Monday, the Washington Post and CNN reported that Roth and his family moved after Musk’s tweets misrepresented Roth’s scholarly work on sexual activity and children. As Twitter’s head of trust and safety, Roth participated in numerous decisions over which posts to remove and which accounts to suspend.
His interactions with other Twitter officials have been published in recent days as part of “the Twitter files,” a collection of internal documents that Musk has shared and spread on the site via journalists such as Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss. Musk’s tweets to his tens of millions of followers have for years prompted his supporters to deluge the targets of his ire with online threats – famously, a participant in the rescue of a boys soccer team trapped in a cave in Thailand who Musk branded “pedo guy.”
But now that Musk owns one of the most powerful social networks in the world and has gutted the division that previously policed online harassment, the stakes are even higher. Musk’s recent condemnation of Anthony Fauci, the top US health official, has also drawn rebuke. Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, called Musks’ comment “dangerous” and “disgusting” in a press briefing on Monday. “They are disgusting, and they are divorced from reality, and we will continue to call that out and be very clear about that,” Jean-Pierre said on Monday.
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