Twitter's former trust & safety chief, who once said the platform was safer under Elon Musk, now says he believes the opposite
Twitter is not safer under Elon Musk, according to Twitter's former head of trust and safety, Yoel Roth.
Roth, who left his role at Twitter exactly two weeks after Musk's official takeover on October 27, said he does not believe there are enough employees left at the company who understand trust and safety to moderate the platform effectively. "You can't rest on your laurels when it comes to that," Roth said at the Knight Foundation"Informed" conference on Tuesday."You can't automate it. There is no 'set it and forget it' when it comes to trust and safety.
But he said Twitter would need to continue to adapt to malicious activity, and even stay"a couple of steps ahead" of it to keep its content safe from violence, hate speech, and illegal activity. "Even if you wanted a policy that is just, 'f--- it,' you cant. You simply cannot do that if you're operating what you want to be a commercially viable consumer service," he said. misleading information policy that it put in place in March 2020.Sign up for notifications from Insider! Stay up to date with what you want to know.
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