Twitter’s director of trust and safety, Ella Irwin, told Reuters on Thursday that she had resigned from the social network, which she had held since last November, without providing further information.
Twitter has been criticized for lax hate speech since Elon Musk bought the company last October.
Twitter has left the EU code against disinformation
Since the acquisition of the billionaire, also the head of Tesla, Twitter has cut costs significantly and laid off thousands of employees, including many employees working to fight harmful and illegal content, as well as disinformation.
The social network has also decided to drop the EU code of conduct against online disinformation. But “his obligations remain,” announced on Saturday the European Commissioner for Industry, Thierry Breton, in a message on the social network directed by Elon Musk.
Launched in 2018, the European code of good practice brings together around thirty signatories, giants like Meta, Google, Twitter, Microsoft, TikTok, but also smaller platforms, as well as advertising professionals, fact-checkers and NGOs.
Source: BFM TV
