And here we thought being lead moderator for Elon would be fun
in an interview late last year she felt empowered by Musk's leadership, claiming he gave her team permission to prioritize user safety over side effects like damaging user numbers.
"If you were to tweet something that had some hateful slur in it, we may deamplify that tweet. You're allowed to say it, but we don't have to give you the reach of getting that out to every user on our platform," Irwin said back in December.on Friday that AJ Brown, Twitter’s head of brand safety and ad quality, has decided to quit as well.It's impossible to know exactly why Irwin departed.
Her departure came on the same day as moderation kerfuffle over the restriction of sharing a transgender-themed video from right-wing blog Daily Wire put out by its personality Matt Walsh.from the Daily Wire's Jeremy Boreing, the site's co-founder claims it was granted permission to publish the video,, on Twitter with an opportunity to buy a promotion package for the 24-hour release as well.
"After reviewing the film, though, Twitter let us know that not only could we no longer purchase the package they offered, they would no longer provide us any support and would actually limit the reach of the film and label it as 'hateful conduct' because of 'misgendering,'" Boreing said.
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