Twitter trust and safety chief Ella Irwin resigns
Twitter’s head of trust and safety Ella Irwin resigned from her role at the Elon Musk-owned social media platform.
Irwin, who confirmed her resignation to Reuters on Thursday, served for roughly seven months and declined to provide a reason for her decision.
Irwin ran the Twitter team that fought disinformation, removed offensive content and helped maintain Twitter’s platform integrity. But Twitter has experienced significant challenges in stemming offensive content under Irwin’s tenure and since Musk began serving as CEO.
Musk had previously said, for example, that fighting child sex abuse material, or CSAM, was “Priority #1” for the platform. Reporting from NBC News and CNBC in January found illegal content was still freely circulating on the platform.
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There was an internal issue at Twitter.
Elon quickly acknowledged it was being fixed.
Within 24 hours the issue was resolved, Streisand Effect took place, and Elon sent 141 million sets of eyes to the documentary.
If this doesn’t convince you Elon is different, nothing will. pic.twitter.com/BUb2GePtVv
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