Elon Musk's arrival stirs fears among some Twitter employees

Reuters via Yahoo ^ | April 7, 2022 | By Sheila Dang

[Oldeconomybuyer]

(Reuters) -News of Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk taking a board seat at Twitter has some Twitter employees panicking over the future of the social media firm's ability to moderate content, company insiders told Reuters.

Despite Twitter's reiteration this week that the board does not make policy decisions, four Twitter employees who spoke with Reuters said they were concerned about Musk's ability to influence the company's policies on abusive users and harmful content.

With Musk on the board, the employees said his views on moderation could weaken years-long efforts to make Twitter a place of healthy discourse, and might allow trolling and mob attacks to flourish.

The employees, who asked not to be named for fear of retribution, point to Musk's history of using Twitter to attack critics. In 2018, Musk came under fire for accusing a British diver who had helped rescue children trapped in a cave in Thailand of being a pedophile.

But other employees Reuters spoke to said that Musk's involvement could help quicken the pace of new feature and product launches, and provide a fresh perspective as an active user of Twitter.

Neither Tesla nor Musk responded to requests for comment.

[Puppage]

Awww, the commie snowflakes.

[Regulator]

Triggered, they are

[RayChuang88]

To which I say: too bad. 😛 Twitter's policies was just too ham-fisted, and they need to change fast.

[PGR88]

Yahoo news - enough said.

[blueunicorn6]

Good.

[Vision]

Uh Oh, an adult is here.

[Williams]

F them.

Can he chase out that owner or whatever he is, the one that looks like a demented hippie goat?

[Sicon]

the employees said his views on moderation could weaken years-long efforts to make Twitter a place of healthy discourse?

There's nothing "healthy" about censorship, bias, and "cancel culture", morons.

[BBQToadRibs2]

Elon is growing on me. Anyone who unsettles the left is doing something right.

[Bob434]

I bey they are all sucking up to him right now, hoping to bs him into thinking that they are nice people so,thatnthey wont be fired if he were to take over somehow.

[Bob434]

The owner or creator has like only 3% and Elon has 9% I think?

[1Old Pro]

four Twitter employees who spoke with Reuters said they were concerned about Musk's ability to influence the company's policies on abusive users and harmful content.

They think a TRUE story in the NY Post is harmful content and anyone who retweets it is an abusive user - so yes, hopefully they quit.

[larrytown]

Despite Twitter's reiteration this week that the board does not make policy decisions...

Keep sayin' that - maybe you can believe it if you say that enough times.

[Billthedrill]

Holy crap, Musk might do something! Circle the wagons!

I wish he'd hire me to manage the purge. Death benefits are cheaper than payroll, know what I mean?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

"With Musk on the board, the employees said his views on moderation could weaken years-long efforts to make Twitter a place of healthy discourse, and might allow trolling and mob attacks to flourish."

Who writes this utterly ridiculous trash?

"Years-long efforts to make Twitter a place of healthy discourse"

"might allow mob attacks to flourish."

Let's ask President Trump what he thinks about those assertions. Or ask any conservative who has been banned, had their posts deleted, or their followers canned.

[TexasFreeper2009]

leftest are like.. free speech for me! But not for thee!

[gibsonguy]

Reuters via Yahoo

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[adorno]

It’s the same way people at Pravda would feel if, suddenly, their favorite dictator lost power and the paper had to lose their communism-all-the-time grip on the news.

[gr8eman]

Hopefully he keeps buying and cleans house!