Rahman and Collier have been members of Twitter’s Trust & Safety Council since its inception in 2016….reports Asian Lite News
Three members of Twitter’s Trust and Safety Council have resigned, claiming that contrary to claims by Elon Musk, the safety and wellbeing of Twitter’s users are on the decline.
Eirliani Abdul Rahman, Anne Collier and Lesley Podesta, who helped oversee Twitter’s digital safety, blamed Musk’s ‘freedom of expression’ approach.
“The question has been on our minds: Should Musk be allowed to define digital safety as he has freedom of expression? Our answer is a categorical ‘no,'” they wrote in a letter posted on netfamilynews.org.
Rahman and Collier have been members of Twitter’s Trust & Safety Council since its inception in 2016.
“We fear a two-tiered Twitter: one for those who can pay and reap the benefits, and another one for those who cannot. This, we fear, will take away the credibility of the system and the beauty of Twitter,” they wrote.
Musk replied, saying “It is a crime that they refused to take action on child exploitation for years!” after a follower referenced a New York Post story on Twitter allegedly not removing child pornography from the site.
Rahman was the first female representative from Asia and had served on the Council’s Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) Prevention advisory group.
“We know that, even after the resignations and dismissals of thousands of employees, there are people working at Twitter who care about reducing hate speech and protecting users on the platform,” they said.
“Despite a lack of acknowledgment on the part of Twitter’s new ownership, we would like to acknowledge the hard work of all members of its Trust and Safety Council over the past six years,” they added.
Rahman said that slurs against Black Americans and gay men have jumped 195 per cent and 58 per cent, respectively since Musk’s takeover.
“Antisemitic posts have soared more than 61 percent in the two weeks after Musk’s acquiring of Twitter. Another red line for me was when previously banned accounts such as those on the far right, and those who had incited others to violence, such as then US President Donald Trump’s, were reinstated,” she mentioned
Twitter selling espresso machine, office bar fridge
After Elon Musk revealed that Twitter spends $13 million a year on food service at its San Francisco headquarters, the company is selling at least 265 kitchen appliances and office furniture online, and the bidding starts at just $25.
However, there is no “sink” on the auction block as that had been taken away by Musk the day he acquired Twitter.
The two-day Twitter auction of kitchen equipment, electronics, furniture, memorabilia and more will start on January 17 on the Heritage Global Partners’ website.
“Twitter: Online Auction Sale Featuring Surplus Corporate Office Assets of Twitter! Sale Featuring Kitchen Equipment, Electronics, Furniture, Memorabilia & More!” read the information.
The bid for Twitter Bird Statue opens at $25 and a “@sculpture planter” also starts at $25.
There are several types of office chairs/cabinets, along with espresso machines/coffee grinders/steam tilting kettles, pizza makers, electric/bakery ovens, freezers (including bar refrigerator), mobile heated cabinets, ice-making machines, fryers, laser projectors and more that have been put on sale.
Last month, Musk said that free staff lunches at Twitter HQ were costing more than $400 per meal.
“There are more people preparing breakfast than eating breakfast. They don’t even bother serving dinner, because there is no one in the building,” he had said.
Meanwhile, local authorities were set to launch a probe into Musk’s move to convert some rooms at Twitter headquarters into small bedrooms.
Local TV channel KQED quoted representatives from the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection as saying that they were launching an investigation into “reports Twitter has converted several office rooms at its headquarters into sleeping quarters for employees”.
“We need to make sure the building is being used as intended,” they said.
After his call to either be “extremely hardcore” at work or quit, Musk converted rooms at Twitter headquarters in San Francisco into small bedrooms, featuring unmade mattresses, drab curtains and giant work monitors, the media reported.
The bedrooms have “bright orange carpeting, a wooden bedside table and what appears to be a queen bed, replete with a table lamp and two office armchairs just begging for convivial workplace collaboration”.
The reports said there were maybe “four to eight such rooms per floor” at the Twitter HQ.