Reports of platform’s entire human rights team being laid off ‘not an encouraging start’
Since his $44 billion takeover last week, Mr Musk has dissolved the company’s board, sacked chief executive Parag Agrawal, along with senior managers, and began mass lay-offs on Friday.
Mr Türk, a UN official who took up his post as the UN rights chief last month, urged Twitter to stand up for the rights to privacy and free expression to the fullest extent possible, under relevant laws, and to transparently report on government pressures that would infringe those rights.“Twitter has a responsibility to avoid amplifying content that results in harms to people’s rights,” Mr Türk said.
“It is vital that Twitter refrain from invasive user tracking and amassing related data and that it resist, to the fullest extent possible under applicable laws, unjustified requests from governments for user data,” he said. Twitter on Saturday unveiled a subscription service for its social media platform for $8 a month that includes the blue checkmark “verified” badge, offering an updated version on Apple’s App Store.
On Saturday, former Twitter chief executive officer Jack Dorsey went on the platform to apologise for the state of the site.
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