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Twitter's former safety chief Yoel Roth tells NPR that people should 'carefully weigh the costs and benefits of using Twitter, given their personal security situation' due to Elon Musk's rapid changes.

. The cuts include contract content moderators, the company's human rights team and investigators working to curb political manipulation and child sexual abuse material.Twitter, which no longer has a communications staff, did not respond to a request for comment.

After Musk took control, Roth was one of the few high-level executives remaining at the company as the new owner fired top management.Roth described a gap between Musk's public persona as a brash and capricious autocrat – Musk changed his bio to"Chief Twit" after closing the deal – and the seasoned executive whom Roth interacted with.

Roth and Musk discussed whether reinstating the account would entail a broader change to Twitter's rules against misgendering or be a singular exception. "What matters to me, ultimately, is not the decision, but how the decision is made," he said."I wouldn't want to be a part of undermining [Twitter's approach to governing the platform] with capricious decision-making. And unfortunately, that's what happened."

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