from ZeroHedge:
Twitter has dissolved its Trust and Safety council after new owner Elon Musk criticized the group over a longstanding lack of action to rid the platform of child sexual abuse material.
“As Twitter moves into a new phase, we are reevaluating how best to bring external insights into our product and policy development work. As part of this process, we have decided that the Trust and Safety Council is not the best structure to do this,” read an email to the council’s members.
TRUTH LIVES on at https://sgtreport.tv/
“Our work to make Twitter a safe, informative place will be moving faster and more aggressively than ever before and we will continue to welcome your ideas going forward about how to achieve this goal,” the email continues. “We will also continue to explore opportunities to provide focused and timely input into our work, whether through bilateral or small group meetings.”
The council, which was made up of around 100 stakeholders – including independent civil, human rights, and other organizations, was notified of the change shortly before it was set to meet on Monday night, the Associated Press reported. The Council’s webpage is now blank.
As The Epoch Times notes, the Trust and Safety Council has been criticized by Musk for not taking action to remove child sexual abuse material from Twitter.
The council was established in 2016 to address problems such as hate speech, child exploitation, suicide, self-harm, and other issues on the platform.
After three members of the council resigned in protest over allegations of increased hate speech on the platform on Dec. 8, Musk declared on Dec. 10 that it was “a crime that they refused to take action on child exploitation for years!”
Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey replied to Musk, saying: “This is false.”
“No, it is not,” Musk replied, adding: “When Ella Irwin, who now runs Trust & Safety, joined Twitter earlier this year, almost no one was working on child safety.”
Musk noted that, unlike Twitter’s former management, he “made it top priority immediately.”
