Twitter Axes Council Tasked With Fighting Hate Speech

The Washington Post reports:

Twitter on Monday night abruptly dissolved its Trust and Safety Council, the latest sign that Elon Musk is unraveling years of work and institutions created to make the social network safer and more civil. Members of Twitter’s Trust and Safety Council received an email with the subject line, “Thank You,” that informed them the council was no longer “the best structure” to bring “external insights into our product and policy development work.”

Dozens of civil rights leaders, academics and advocates from around the world had volunteered their time for years to help improve safety on the platform. Twitter first formed the Trust and Safety Council in 2016, as social networks were coming under greater scrutiny for their role in amplifying hate, terrorism, child exploitation and other problematic content online.

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Elon Musk’s Twitter dissolves the Trust And Safety Council formed in 2016 to address problems like hate speech, child exploitation, suicide and self-harm https://t.co/EjA98LcQ2D

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