Elon Musk meets with France’s President Emmanuel Macron (L) at the Élysée Palace in Paris, May 15, 2023.Ludovic Marin | Afp | Getty ImagesTwitter’s head of trust and safety Ella Irwin resigned from her role at the Elon Musk-owned social media platform.Irwin, who confirmed her resignation to Reuters on Thursday, served for roughly seven months and declined to provide a reason for her decision.Irwin ran the Twitter team that fought disinformation, removed offensive content and helped maintain Twitter’s platform integrity. But Twitter has experienced significant challenges in stemming offensive content under Irwin’s tenure and since Musk began serving as CEO.Musk had previously said, for example, that fighting child sex abuse material, or CSAM, was “Priority #1” for the platform. Reporting from NBC News and CNBC in January found illegal content was still freely circulating on the platform.Irwin’s departure comes at a turbulent time for the social media network, which was grappling with the dissemination of a conservative website’s purported documentary on transgender people. The video was uploaded to Twitter’s platform Thursday but was “visibility limited,” preventing users from retweeting or commenting on it.On Friday, Musk shared the video after the visibility restrictions were apparently lifted.Twitter’s trust and safety team, the
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Twitter trust and safety chief Ella Irwin resigns – CNBC
