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Drew Harwell Jan 31, 2023

"We’ve confirmed that Irwin has access to user DMs as part of her position. Given the way the company has handled the Twitter Files, multiple former employees told us that DMs are no longer secure, and have discouraged us from using them for any remotely sensitive communication."

https://www.platformer.news/p/another-whistleblower-comes-for-twitter @caseynewton @zoeschiffer

Another whistleblower comes for Twitter

Is the real threat the company's "God Mode" — or its trust and safety team?

Platformer

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Drew Harwell Jan 31, 2023

Ella Irwin also explicitly directed Twitter to ban journalists like me. The fact that she has used her access to people's private messages should be a wake-up call to everyone on Twitter, especially journalists; how can you protect sources in a place like that?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/12/15/twitter-journalists-suspended-musk/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-27/elon-musk-s-twitter-trust-safety-head-ella-irwin-breaks-rules-for-him

Musk suspends journalists from Twitter, claims ‘assassination’ danger

Many of the journalists, including from The Washington Post and New York Times, had written about dramas surrounding billionaire Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter.

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Deji

@drewharwell When are all of you legit journalists going to leave the #Dirtybird for good. If you ALL left, so would most of the legit advertisers. If you ALL left and came exclusively to #mastodon you’d have the freedom of the #fediverse without algorithms, political pressure, and a fascist owner. Geez. What’s it gonna take?