DoodleDadDec 13, 2022
Casey Newton
Twitter just disbanded its trust and safety council, per an email shared with Platformer
Dec 13, 2022 at 12:19amWeb
Show threadCasey NewtonDec 13, 2022

"From: Trust & Safety Council
Date: Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 4:07 PM
Subject: Thank you

Dear Trust and Safety Council Members,

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.

...

Show threadCasey NewtonDec 13, 2022

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. We will also continue to explore opportunities to provide focussed and timely input into our work, whether through bilateral or small group meetings.

Your regional points of contact will remain the best people to contact to escalate concerns, please let us know if you need reconnecting.

Show threadCasey NewtonDec 13, 2022

We are grateful for your engagement, advice and collaboration in recent years and wish you every success in the future.

With best wishes,

Twitter"

Show threadJake Jarvis Dec 13, 2022
@caseynewton he's such a big strong boy on the timeline but still too afraid to sign his name on emails like this. 👶🏻
Show threadPlebs TribuneDec 13, 2022

@jake @caseynewton

* likes to play with water pistols
* mom doesn't let him get wet

Show threadstevenrayDec 13, 2022
@Plebs_Tribune @jake @caseynewton why does she remind me of Gary Oldman’s Dracula? 😂
Show threadTsumami Dec 13, 2022
@Plebs_Tribune @jake @caseynewton that’s his mother?????!!!?? Holy shit coupled with his daughter this explains everything
Show threado3fDec 13, 2022
@Plebs_Tribune @jake @caseynewton cringe
Show threadMontana&MattaDec 13, 2022
@Plebs_Tribune @jake @caseynewton ohh yes sure...His mum, that lovely blonde, let her husband make pregnant her niece ( Elon daughter) for 2 times. What a lovely family!
Show threadRam KandaDec 13, 2022
@caseynewton ‘the Royal we’
Show threadBen KutcherDec 13, 2022
@caseynewton Trust and Safety are historically overrated human needs.
Show threadJon HenshawDec 13, 2022

@caseynewton right on schedule

https://www.theonion.com/elon-musk-worried-he-won-t-have-enough-twitter-employee-1849870554

Elon Musk Worried He Won’t Have Enough Twitter Employees Left To Fire On Christmas Eve

SAN FRANCISCO—Expressing concern that he might have totally ruined the holiday season, Elon Musk reportedly worried Thursday that he wouldn’t have enough Twitter employees left to fire on Christmas Eve. “Gosh, I just don’t know if I’ll be able to parcel them out long enough to enjoy destroying a few of their lives on…

The Onion
Show threadChemicalTribeDec 13, 2022
@caseynewton
Gotta be the most weak, weasel worded corporate speak email. Cringe.
There, that should be the last edit.
Show threadSean OFarrellDec 13, 2022

@caseynewton signed “Twitter”

Sigh.

Show threadChristel van der BoomDec 13, 2022
@caseynewton more than 8000 people are following you here already, and that will only grow. Thank you for your leadership - I hope more folks will follow your example.
Show threadAndrew LosowskyDec 13, 2022
@caseynewton I just read that part in isolation and thought it was the platform sending you a goodbye letter
Show threadBecDec 13, 2022

@caseynewton

Hello. Guessing you meant to write "Mastodon" and not "Twitter" in your first sentence ... ?

Show threadCasey NewtonDec 13, 2022
@beccanalia no this is about Twitter
Show threadBecDec 13, 2022

@caseynewton

Ah, ... it was not clear that this was a part of a (parody?) Twitter Trust & Safety Council letter.

Now it sort of makes sense.

I think your wee thread needs some hashtags to give us some context.

Show threadThe Evil MicrowizardDec 13, 2022
@beccanalia @caseynewton 100% real content, to most everyone's dismay.
Show threadMichael GartenbergDec 13, 2022
@caseynewton 😂
Show threadScott Williams 🐧Dec 13, 2022

@caseynewton Same energy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3OiIjIvN0A

"The Imperial Senate will no longer be of any concern to us."

YouTube
Show threadnadezhdaDec 13, 2022
@caseynewton The “regional points of contact will remain the best people to escalate concerns” brings up 2 issues completely ignored while the CEO keeps all attention focused on himself, US politics, and trashing the site:
1. The majority of users are outside the US and the site is subject to a wide variety of approaches to regulation & govt oversight
2. The slashing of the workforce, especially in Trust & Safety adjacent areas, has been reported as deep worldwide Who they gonna call?
Show threadBret CarmichaelDec 13, 2022

@caseynewton “Our work to make Twitter a safe informative place…”

👀 Meanwhile: Our CEO falsely accused our former head of Trust & Safety of sexualizing children at the consequence of death threats made against him, which resulted in him needing to leave his home. We don’t care about trust or safety. We lie to remove both.

Show threadjakenutsDec 13, 2022
@caseynewton mutiny is the only course of honor here - ☠️ to Elno
Show threadjuno suárezDec 13, 2022
@caseynewton wow
Show threadBrian GrinterDec 13, 2022

@caseynewton @shoq work continues to turn it in to a Nazi bar

https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/109492017414005430

William Lindsey (@[email protected])

Rayne on Marcy Wheeler's EmptyWheel site on what Musk has done to Twitter: "The once-beloved shitty crustpunk bar which many of us could comfortably call home is now a goddamned Nazi pub. The longer you stay there, the more that shit rubs off on you: you’re one of the Nazi watering hole’s patrons. You’re a Nazi by association." #Twitter #Elon #Musk #Nazi https://www.emptywheel.net/2022/12/09/three-things-goodbye-to-the-once-and-former-shitty-crustpunk-bar/

toad.social
Show threadPetronisDec 13, 2022
@caseynewton who's we?
Show threadMax WoolfDec 13, 2022

@caseynewton you didn't post that on twitter

ballsy move

Show threadJimmySwizzleDec 13, 2022
@caseynewton #TwitterIsDead #Doom #ElonGate
Show threadericjetblackDec 13, 2022
@caseynewton is it because they achieved all the trust and safety?
Show threadCasey NewtonDec 13, 2022
@ericjetblack twitter is almost TOO safe now
Show threadPax Ahimsa Gethen 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 13, 2022

@caseynewton Presumably this is a response/follow-up to three members of that council quitting last week?

https://slate.com/technology/2022/12/twitter-elon-musk-trust-and-safety-council-members-quit-interview.html

A Member of Twitter’s Trust and Safety Council Explains Why She Got Fed Up and Quit

Eirliani Abdul Rahman helped the platform stop youth sexual exploitation. The new boss wasn’t listening.

Slate
Show threadCasey NewtonDec 13, 2022
@funcrunch good call
Show threadGuzanoDec 13, 2022
@funcrunch @caseynewton donno but the article is a good read
Show threadDerek NuzumDec 13, 2022
@caseynewton joke org with a clown at the top. No difference to the wide-ranging impacts for years to come from the previous WH admin
Show threadavnyc on hudsonDec 13, 2022
@caseynewton this will get those advertising dollars back to the table big time - who could resist
Show threadSTEMTheBleedingDec 13, 2022
@avnyc @caseynewton I read that too quickly and thought you said "who could racist", which in retrospect...
Show threadGregory HaysDec 13, 2022
@caseynewton As Dorothy Parker said when Calvin Coolidge died ...
Show threadMr. Fred 🔥Dec 13, 2022
@caseynewton to be fair, "we can't be bothered with this burdensome thing called accountability any longer" is very, very on brand
Show threadMarc HedlundDec 13, 2022
@caseynewton hey, I really appreciate both that you left Twitter and that you're posting here. I hope it's a positive change for you; it definitely is for those who get to follow you here. Thanks.
Show threadAlex RainertDec 13, 2022
@marcprecipice @caseynewton huge +1!
Show threadThatGuySpikeDec 13, 2022

@caseynewton Fitting for a platform I no longer trust and regard a security risk!

cc: #ChiefTwit

Show threadDanDec 13, 2022
@caseynewton how much do you want to bet his T&S council wrote him a letter last night denouncing his bigoted and transphobic tweets. Said he was contributing to making things worse.
Show threadTechronic9876Dec 13, 2022
@Danielsand @caseynewton disappointing not to see advertisers bailing on the site. There’s been a few high profile defections recently— can’t be too long maybe?
Show threadDanDec 13, 2022
@Techronic9876 @caseynewton I can definitely say that any advertiser who continues there after today is explicitly saying they support Elon and his bigotry.
I hope every single one cancels their ad campaigns.
Show threadDan WilkosDec 13, 2022
@caseynewton they had one?
Show threadBen WelshDec 13, 2022
@caseynewton Are you cross posting? What's the approach rn?
Show threadGeorge William HerbertDec 13, 2022
@caseynewton of course they did.
Show threadPammyStarr   ✍️Dec 13, 2022
@caseynewton won’t that encourage the government to shut it down?
Show threadMatthew SaundersDec 13, 2022
@caseynewton oof. You can tell too. It has become a cess pool very quickly.
Show threadEric GilmourDec 13, 2022
@caseynewton do they have something to replace it yet?
Show threadEubie Drew (QOTO 🦣)Dec 13, 2022

@erictgilmour @caseynewton

Elon will devote one half hour each week. Alone.

Show threadIsaac Erbele, MDDec 13, 2022
@caseynewton If my goal were to protect children, I would simply not fire them
Show threadv̾i̾t̾r̾i̾o̾l̾i̾x̾Dec 13, 2022
@caseynewton elon bought himself a giant megaphone
Show threadtoxtethogradyDec 13, 2022
@caseynewton The Washington Post picked up the story...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/12/musk-twitter-harass-yoel-roth/
Twitter dissolves Trust and Safety Council

Yoel Roth, Twitter’s former head of trust and safety, left his home after criticism from Musk unleashed a torrent of online harassment.

The Washington Post
Show threadtoxtethogradyDec 13, 2022
@caseynewton And Twitter Blue is back. At $11 a month...
Show threadRobsMuir 🐀 Dec 13, 2022
@caseynewton I'm sure that the EU is just thrilled to hear that. #smdh
Show threadJeffrey P. Bigham 🔥🔥Dec 13, 2022
@caseynewton hadn't they mostly all already quit?
Show threadUnionGuyPEIDec 13, 2022
@caseynewton To be replaced by all currently unjailed Proud Boys. Stand back and stand by, says Elon.