CEO of SpaceX, Twitter and electric car maker Tesla, Elon Musk meets French President Emmanuel Macron (left) at the Elysee presidential palace in Paris on May 15, 2023.
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Twitter’s head of trust and safety, Ella Irwin, has resigned from her role at the Elon Musk-owned social media platform.
Irwin who confirmed his resignation Reuters on Thursday, has been serving his sentence for about seven months and declined to give a reason for his decision.
Irwin runs the Twitter team that fights misinformation, removes offensive content, and helps maintain the integrity of the Twitter platform. But Twitter has experienced significant challenges in blocking offensive content during Irwin’s tenure and since Musk began as CEO.
For example, Musk previously said. that combating child sexual abuse material, or CSAM, is “Preference #1” for the platform. report from NBC News and CNBC in January discovered that illegal content was still circulating freely on the platform.
Irwin’s departure comes at a tumultuous time for the social media network, which is grappling with a conservative website’s dissemination of a purported transgender documentary. The video was uploaded to Twitter’s platform on Thursday but had “limited visibility”, making it impossible for users to repost or comment on it.
Twitter’s safety and trust team – which Irwin ran until earlier this week – will be responsible for limiting the spread of the post. Irwin’s predecessor, Yoel Roth, gave up Musk’s ownership after just two weeks.
Musk, who was own Twitter since October 2022 and describes itself as a free speech advocate, calling the tagging a “mistake”, but as of Friday, has not lifted limits on visibility. town. The dissemination of obscene, violent or hateful content on social media networks is of considerable concern to legislators, regulators, advocacy groups and the general public.
Concerns about unwanted content, including racially or sexually offensive material, have caused a advertiser flight shortly after Musk acquired Twitter. Since then, he’s taken steps to stem the tide and woo advertisers, including hiring a former NBCUniversal advertising executive. Linda Yaccarino as CEO.
Neither Irwin nor Musk responded to requests for comment. Twitter’s press email provides an automated, non-informative response.
