Anonymous ID: 280b43 April 26, 2022, 1:15 p.m. No.16158873   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8951 >>9004

Twitter’s top lawyer reassures staff, cries during meeting about Musk takeover

 

(These people are sick in the head, seriously)

 

Vijaya Gadde, a key executive involved in decisions to remove former President Donald Trump and ban political advertising, expressed uncertainty about the future of the platform.

 

“I think everyone at Twitter, regardless of how they feel about the news, is feeling reflective and emotional,” said one Twitter employee. “We’ve gone through a lot in the past two years and I think it’s generally instigated a lot of reflection. I think this was more of an acknowledgment of the uncertainty everyone is feeling right now.”

 

Gadde and Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

 

Musk’s acquisition, which places the world’s richest man at the helm of one of its most influential social media networks, is one of the largest-ever activist takeovers of a publicly-traded company.

 

Musk has called for Twitter to truly embrace free speech and has advocated for open-sourcing Twitter’s algorithm and removing all spam bots from the platform. Most significantly, Musk has signaled he supports vastly loosening the company’s content moderation policies, suggesting it should only remove content if it is required by law. That would be a huge shift for the company, which has spent years creating elaborate guidelines to reduce the amount of vitriolic and threatening content on its platform.

 

Gadde herself has advocated strongly for ensuring that Twitter’s policiesprotect its most vulnerable userswhile protecting free expression — a position that is at odds with Musk’s.

 

“I’m often inspired by the vigorous debates on controversial issues that occur on Twitter, butI’ve also been seriously troubled by the plight of some of our users who are completely overwhelmed by those who are trying to silence healthy discourse in the name of free expression,” Gadde wrote in a 2015 Washington Post op-ed. “At times, this takes the form of hateful speech in tweets directed at women or minority groups; at others, it takes the form of threats aimed to intimidate those who take a stand on issues.”

 

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/26/twitters-top-lawyer-reassures-staff-cries-during-meeting-about-musk-takeover-00027931