Elon Musk’s tumultuous takeover of Twitter continued to cause a stir on Thursday, with the social network’s top officials resigning and a rare warning from the US competition agency (FTC).
He recalled that the platform must respect certain rules under the terms of an agreement with the agency on data security and confidentiality.
The agreement in question, revised this year, “gives us new tools to ensure that it is respected, and we are ready to use them,” added the spokesman, referring to the large fines that the FTC could impose. However, many employees aware of these regulations are no longer on Twitter.
Thousands of departures
The head of Tesla and SpaceX fired half of the 7,500 employees of the Californian company a week ago, ten days after buying it and becoming its only master on board. Hundreds of people had already left this summer, and executive resignations continued last week.
On Thursday, Lea Kissner, chief of security, announced his departure in a tweet. “I have made the difficult decision to leave Twitter. I have had the opportunity to work with great people and I am very proud of the work we have done with the different Data Privacy, security and information technology teams”.
Other directors were also fired according to the Washington Postincluding those responsible for data privacy and compliance with laws and regulations.
Elon Musk repeatedly tried to reassure everyone that content moderation, a safeguard against abuse on the platform, had not changed, but his hastily implemented decisions and Twitter provocations have been causing daily controversy for two weeks.
Source: BFM TV
