Twitter's ex-head of Trust & Safety on why he resigned: a Twitter whose policies are defined by unilateral edict has little need for a trust and safety function
Twitter isn't going anywhere. $44 billion corporations … Luc Olinga / TheStreet : Elon Musk Bids Farewell to Conspiracy Theorist Alex Jones Mitsuwo Note : Strange coincidence between Elon Musk and Jim Watkins David Kaye : What's going to happen to Twitter? A few thoughts. Caroline Frost / Deadline : Twitter Ex-Employee Reveals “50% Chance Of Major Outage During World Cup” CBS News : Elon Musk's Twitter ultimatum met with mass resignations Agence France-Presse : [Newsmaker] Twitter turmoil, staff exodus aggravate security concerns Mary Yang / NPR : How likely is a complete Twitter meltdown? 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White / SlashGear : Musk Clarifies Twitter's Approach To ‘Freedom Of Speech’ Reinstates Several Banned Users Jon Fingas / Engadget : Elon Musk begins unbanning some high-profile Twitter accounts, starting with Jordan Peterson and Kathy Griffin Tweets: Yoel Roth / @yoyoel : Last week, I made the decision to leave my role leading Trust & Safety at Twitter. Today, I'm sharing a few thoughts about what comes next for the site. https://www.nytimes.com/... Elon Musk / @elonmusk : Freedom Fridays ... Elon Musk / @elonmusk : First World Cup match on Sunday! Watch on Twitter for best coverage & real-time commentary. Laurence Tribe / @tribelaw : “Twitter will have to balance its new owner's goals against the practical realities of life on Apple's and Google's internet — no easy task for the employees who have chosen to remain.” https://www.nytimes.com/... @_shamgod : Probably the most important two paragraphs in the piece. I encourage ppl to read the whole thing, there's a lot there including some real nefarious actors on the marketing end https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/... @bostonjoan : A company's product is only as stable as its teams. While I've disagreed with some of the decisions over the years, @yoyoel has always been upfront and smart in his explanations. I appreciated that frankness as an outside researcher trying to disentangle policy from enforcement. https://twitter.com/... Karuna Nundy / @karunanundy : App stores, regulators, advertisers vs Space Karen. Here's a great, realistic flightpath for Twitter, by @yoyoel who worked there. https://www.nytimes.com/... Matt Navarra / @mattnavarra : Twitter has a 50% chance of a catastrophic failure during #WorldCup ...according to a former Twitter employee with knowledge of the platform's prep When asked what prep had been done by Twitter: “None that I know of. We should have started weeks ago” https://www.theguardian.com/ ... Rakesh Agrawal / @rakeshlobster : Yikes. Getting kicked off by either App Store would be disastrous. https://twitter.com/... Cheo Hodari Coker / @cheo_coker : Fascinating article. My prediction? A trillion dollar company like Apple or Google bites the bullet and buys it. Could you imagine if Youtube merges with Twitter? Meta could also be a player. https://twitter.com/... Elon Musk / @elonmusk : Note, this applies just to the individual tweet, not the whole account @juwanthewriter : The former head of Safety at Twitter wrote this op-ed in the Times about his experiences and exit. It is *very* illuminating and alarming — not for the reason the Musk stans think it is: this provides evidence of how little safeguards were in place before/since his takeover. https://twitter.com/... Peter Kafka / @pkafka : But lots of people tell me that Elon has a plan so I'm sure this was part of it all along. https://twitter.com/... Samantha Maiden / @samanthamaiden : Very interesting. Twitter relies on ads for 90 per cent of revenue and former head of Twitter trust and safety says under Elon Musk recently been censoring more not less despite freedom rhetoric because of advertisers https://twitter.com/... Eric Seufert / @eric_seufert : Yoel: you were on the Twitter Space with Elon for advertisers mere days before resigning. You spoke in that Space of Twitter's dedication to core principles of community safety. What should I believe: your words then or your words now? https://twitter.com/... Kirstine Stewart / @kirstinestewart : What's Twitter's Future? “even if Mr. Musk is able to free Twitter from the influence of powerful advertisers, his path to unfettered speech is still not clear. Twitter remains bound by the laws and regulations of the countries in which it operates.” https://www.nytimes.com/... Tom Coates / @tomcoates : And shock, he points to many of the same issues that everyone else presented to him and which he dismissed or skirted around at the time. Tom Coates / @tomcoates : I was pretty frustrated with @yoyoel in his last few weeks at Twitter. He seemed to spend most of his time putting an entirely disingenuous favorable gloss on the dangerous bullshit of Musk. Apparently having left he now feels more able to speak freely. https://www.nytimes.com/... Casey Newton / @caseynewton : Good piece from @yoyoel that touches on, among other things, who really has the power to limit speech on the platform https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/... Alex Heath / @alexeheath : Twitter's former head of trust and safety @yoyoel on why he left last week: “A Twitter whose policies are defined by unilateral edict has little need for a trust and safety function” https://www.nytimes.com/... Elon Musk / @elonmusk : [Thread] Elon Musk says a “new Twitter policy” will deboost and demonetize “negative/hate tweets” and reinstates Kathy Griffin, Jordan Peterson, and Babylon Bee See also Mediagazer