According to reports, Twitter’s second head of trust and safety under owner Elon Musk has resigned.
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Twitter’s head of trust
Ella Irwin took over when previous CEO Yoel Roth stepped down in November 2022, just a month after Mr Musk took over the company.
The head of trust and safety is in charge of content moderation, which has been a hot topic since Mr Musk’s takeover.
She confirmed her resignation to both major news sources. Her reason for resigning is unknown. However, it comes just a day after Mr Musk publicly criticized a Twitter content moderation decision.
He called the decision to limit the visibility of a video over allegations of misgendering, “a mistake by many people at Twitter”.
“Whether or not you agree with using someone’s preferred pronouns, not doing so is at most rude and certainly breaks no laws,” he wrote.
It comes just a week after Facebook dropped out of the European Union’s voluntary code to combat disinformation.
Mr Musk announced last month that Linda Yaccarino, the former NBCUniversal head of advertising, would become Twitter’s new CEO. She has not yet begun her role.
Moderation of content
In-depth studies have found that hate speech has increased during Mr Musk’s tenure, with the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a London-based campaign group, finding that slurs have increased significantly since the takeover.
Twitter also disbanded the volunteer group that advised it on self-harm, child abuse, and hate speech in December 2022.
However, Mr Musk announced that the platform’s Community Notes feature would be expanded to include images in order to moderate the accuracy of content.
Community Notes is a crowdsourced fact-checking system in which Twitter users can add comments to tweets that provide context, often labeling them as false or misleading. In the future, the platform hopes to expand this feature to include video.
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