Posted on 11/04/2022 6:58:18 PM PDT by DoodleBob
Human rights advocates are denouncing Twitter owner Elon Musk's decision to fire the social media platform's human rights department.
Musk on Friday terminated thousands of Twitter employees, roughly half of the company's workforce of 7,500. Many of the now-former employees say they were given no notice before being abruptly let go via email. Musk is facing multiple lawsuits due to the mass firing, which potentially violated a California labor law.
Workers with responsibilities that included content curation, machine learning ethics and communication were among those fired this week, according to Reuters. Former Twitter employee Shannon Raj Singh, who was the platform's human rights counsel, said in a tweet that she was fired alongside her entire team on Friday.
"Yesterday was my last day at Twitter: the entire Human Rights team has been cut from the company," tweeted Singh. "I am enormously proud of the work we did to implement the UN Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights [UNGP], to protect those at-risk in global conflicts & crises including Ethiopia, Afghanistan, and Ukraine."
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Human rights groups and experts soon expressed alarm at the elimination Singh's team, denouncing Musk for abandoning the company's "responsibility" to protect rights.
"Twitter is instituting company-wide layoffs, including the elimination of its entire human rights team," Human Rights Watch tweeted. "Companies have a responsibility to employ people who are essential to the protection of people's rights — this includes content moderators, trust and safety teams, and others."
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“Experts” because somebody selected them.
Oh, my Lord. It was worse than we thought—the UN is dictating to American companies? What else will we learn in coming days?
Do your thing, Elon; but please don't also let this go to your head.
Thanks for pointing that out. That's a ghastly grammatical error.
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