Elon Musk stirs fears among some Twitter employees
at Twitter has some Twitter employees panicking over the future of the social media firm’s ability to moderate content, company insiders have said.
With Musk on the board, the employees say his views on moderation could weaken years-long efforts to make Twitter a place of healthy discourse and allow trolling and mob attacks to flourish. When asked for comment, a Twitter spokesman repeated a statement from Tuesday that the board “plays an important advisory and feedback role across the entirety of our service”, but daily operations and decisions are made by Twitter’s management and employees.
Twitter’s board figures prominently in discussions within Twitter, more so than at other tech companies, one employee said. That is because unlike Meta Platforms, where founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg controls the company through a dual class share structure, Twitter only has a single class of shares making it more vulnerable to activists like Musk. Teams within Twitter often consider how to communicate a strategy or decision to the board, for instance, the employee said.
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