TWITTER STAFF EXODUS CONTINUES AFTER A WEIRD, SAD DAY ON TWITTER EVEN BY TWITTER'S WEIRD, SAD STA...

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TWITTER STAFF EXODUS CONTINUES AFTER A WEIRD, SAD DAY ON TWITTER EVEN BY TWITTER’S WEIRD, SAD STANDARDS

DARING FIREBALL Blog
By JOHN GRUBE

Mike Masnick, writing at TechDirt:

Basically, a manufactured martyrdom controversy, combined with Twitter pretending to stand up to encouraging hatred, only for Musk to double down that hate has a comfy, welcoming home on Twitter.

Of course, in the midst of all this, the news came out that Ella Irwin, who had been leading trust and safety since relatively early in the Elon Musk reign, and who had been on Twitter through Wednesday directly responding to trust and safety requests, had resigned and was no longer at the company. It’s unclear if her resignation had anything to do with this mess, but the timing does seem notable.

Still, given all of this, is it really any wonder that advertisers like Ben & Jerry’s have announced that they’re ending all paid advertising on the site in response to the proliferation of hate speech?

Also yesterday, Twitter iOS engineer Yoshimasa Niwa resigned:


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1. The slow downward spiral of Twitter is picking up speed