![]() ![]() Musk reportedly immediately removed chief executive Parag Agrawal, finance boss Ned Segal, and Vijaya Gadde, head of legal, policy and safety, after closing the $44bn takeover of the social network company. Twitter’s top executives will be entitled to “golden parachute” payouts worth more than $120m if removed as expected by new owner Elon Musk. Here’s more info on the payout that ex-Twitter executives will receive amid Musk’s buyout from The Guardian’s Jasper Jolly: The UK government flagged its own concerns on Friday, as the environment secretary, Thérèse Coffey, said it would be “concerning” if a relaxation of content moderation led to a proliferation on hate speech on the platform. ![]() The EU is introducing the digital services act, which includes provisions for removal of illegal content including hate speech. The EU’s internal market commissioner, Thierry Breton, wrote on the platform on Friday that “in Europe, the bird will fly by our rules”, in response to Musk’s earlier tweet saying “the bird is freed” in apparent confirmation that he had bought the business. Senior politicians have warned Elon Musk over content moderation on Twitter, with the EU stressing the platform will “fly by our rules” and a UK minister expressing concerns over hate speech under the billionaire’s ownership. Twitter’s track record when it comes to security already isn’t great, and Musk might be laying off employees who are essential to maintaining the protections it has that actually work (Musk has reportedly said he doesn’t plan to lay off that many people or that soon).Īnother helpful tidbit about free speech concerns and disinformation on Twitter under Musk’s rule from the Guardian’s Dan Milmo and Alex Hern: Twitter users should perhaps be concerned not about their data leaking to Musk but about their data leaking to everyone. And that would certainly be a disaster for a company Musk paid a lot of money for.īut even if Musk eventually does get his hands on the DMs of people he doesn’t like or wants to keep tabs on, the article argues that this isn’t the biggest security concern: It’s hard to imagine Musk making such a request and that request not somehow being leaked to the press. Musk would have to work with Twitter employees to get that data, and they might not be willing to help him read someone’s DMs. There are also whatever internal controls Twitter has - including those it’s supposed to have implemented per consent orders with agencies like the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) - that might get in Musk’s way. ![]() As for the board, based on the preliminary proxy statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Musk plans to install his own board immediately. The new CEO, Bloomberg says, is Musk himself. He reportedly fired several of Twitter’s top executives, including CEO Parag Agrawal and Vijaya Gadde, who was the head of legal, public policy, and trust and safety. It shouldn’t be too difficult to get them to agree to Musk’s demands, though. To do that, he’d have to go through the board of directors. Twitter’s management team would first have to be amenable to fulfilling Musk’s requests. Now, is Musk going to waltz into Twitter’s headquarters on his first full day (maybe holding a sink again), fire up his computer, and immediately set about reading all of your DMs, peering in on private accounts’ tweets, and harvesting users’ phone numbers? Probably not, and whether that happens at all depends on several factors, according to Andy Wu, a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School. Vox had a good story on what happens to your DMs, and whether they’re safe from Musk: Now that Elon Musk owns Twitter, does that mean he can access anyone’s Twitter data? Hi, it’s Maanvi Singh, taking over the blog from my colleague Gloria Oladipo. ![]()
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