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| Elon Musk's Twitter loses second trust and safety chief | Elon Musk's Twitter loses second trust and safety chief |
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| Twitter's second head of trust and safety under owner Elon Musk has resigned, according to reports. | |
| Ella Irwin took the post when previous head Yoel Roth left in November 2022 - a month after Mr Musk took over the company. | |
| The head of trust and safety is tasked with content moderation, a topic which has come under the spotlight since Mr Musk's takeover. | The head of trust and safety is tasked with content moderation, a topic which has come under the spotlight since Mr Musk's takeover. |
| The BBC has approached Twitter and Ms Irwin for comment. | The BBC has approached Twitter and Ms Irwin for comment. |
| She confirmed to both Reuters and the Wall Street Journal that she has stepped down. The reason for her resignation is unclear. | |
| It comes a week after the social media platform pulled out of the European Union's voluntary code to fight disinformation. | It comes a week after the social media platform pulled out of the European Union's voluntary code to fight disinformation. |
| Mr Musk announced last month that Linda Yaccarino, the former head of advertising at NBCUniversal, would become Twitter's new chief executive. She has not yet started her role. | Mr Musk announced last month that Linda Yaccarino, the former head of advertising at NBCUniversal, would become Twitter's new chief executive. She has not yet started her role. |
| Content moderation | |
| In-depth studies have indicated hate speech has been growing under Mr Musk's tenure, with the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a London-based campaign group, finding slurs increased substantially after the takeover. | |
| And in December 2022, Twitter disbanded the volunteer group which advised it on self-harm, child abuse and hate speech. | |
| But there have been moves to moderate the accuracy of content, with Mr Musk announcing the platform's Community Notes feature would be expanded to images. | |
| Community Notes is a crowdsourced fact-checking system, in which Twitter users can add comments which provide context to tweets - often labelling them as false or misleading. | |
| The platform wants to expand this feature to include video in the future. | |
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