“Safety online can mean survival offline," the group’s president, Jodie Ginsburg, said in a statement. “Today’s decision to dissolve the Trust and Safety Council is cause for grave concern, particularly as it is coupled with increasingly hostile statements by Twitter owner Elon Musk about journalists and the media.”
~https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/12/musk-twitter-harass-yoel-roth/

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"Musk’s treatment of the board mirrored a wave of attacks that enveloped a former top executive at the company over the weekend.

Yoel Roth, Twitter’s former head of trust and safety, and his family were forced from their home after Elon Musk’s tweets misrepresented Roth’s academic writing."
~https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/12/musk-twitter-harass-yoel-roth/

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"Musk’s tweets to his tens of millions of followers have for years prompted his supporters to deluge the targets of his ire with online threats...

But now that Musk owns one of the most powerful social networks in the world and has gutted the company division that previously policed online harassment, the stakes are even higher."
~https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/12/musk-twitter-harass-yoel-roth/

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"Twitter employees have long been wary of Musk’s ability to stoke online criticism.
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Such harassment is part of a years-long pattern for Musk, with few legal consequences to date."
~https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/12/musk-twitter-harass-yoel-roth/

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