Twitter’s public policy team continues to be decimated under Elon Musk, signaling a retreat from engaging with democratic, national security and human rights concerns across the world.
When Elon Musk arrived as Twitter’s new owner in fall last year, the company quietly laid off members of its public policy team, sacking various individuals crucial to protecting the midterms from disinformation and interference, as well as those helping defend human rights on the site. Amongst them was Neema Singh Guliani, its lead on democracy, national security and civil rights policy.
The layoffs had a “huge impact on our capacity to deal with disinformation and interference” during the midterms.Guliani, who’d also worked on counterterror and extremism policy at the DHS, announced on LinkedIn on Thursday she had taken on a new role with the U.S. Department of Commerce as a deputy assistant secretary, where she will work on the agency’s efforts to create “policy conditions for U.S. digital, financial, supply chain and other services industries to compete around the world.
The layoffs follow a broader trend at Musk-era Twitter of major cuts to policy and safety in favor of a “hard-core” crew focused on engineering and monetization. That has the potential to leave gaps in Twitter’s defense against domestic and foreign meddling in elections, while diminishing its standing on the global stage when it comes to issues like human rights.
The Musk-ordered shift away from policy issues has only ramped up in 2023, as other recent departures revealed on LinkedIn indicate a retreat from engagement with security and human rights concerns across the world.
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