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Twitter dissolves Trust and Safety Advisory Council over email

Twitter dissolves Trust and Safety Advisory Council over email
The email arrived shortly before the scheduled meeting of the council members with Twitter representatives on Monday.

 

Twitter has dissolved its volunteer group Trust and Safety Advisory Council, according to media reports. The advisory group was formed in 2016 to address issues relating to hate speech, child exploitation, suicide, etc.

 

“As Twitter moves into a new phase, we are reevaluating how best to bring external insights into our product and policy development work. As part of this process, we have decided that the Trust and Safety Council is not the best structure to do this,” according to an email sent to the members of the advisory council and as seen by Reuters that further stated that the Twitter page for Trust and Safety Council has been deleted.

 

The email arrived shortly before the scheduled meeting of the council members with the company representatives on Monday. The microblogging site’s move comes under the leadership of the new boss Elon Musk and is another addition to what now seems like a never-ending saga consisting of mass layoffs, weakening content moderation policies, and a surge in fake accounts.

 

In another news event, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey warned against the state of the microblogging platform and attacks on its employees. In a blog post, Dorsey wrote that the microblogging platform he led and the Twitter of today do not meet any of the principles of resilience to corporate and government control, user-controlled content, and algorithmic moderation. He added that he is funding new efforts in “open internet development,” starting with $1 million per year to Signal.

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