Experts say Twitter’s trust and safety team could lose steam under its new owner.
a month earlier. Since they left, Wu said the company stopped reaching out to her.
“If this causes an exodus, that will be a real shame,” said Conner, who was Facebook’s first employee in Washington, D.C. “That will take years to rebuild, if it’s even possible.”Like Warren, Wu believes that loosening moderation on Twitter could be bad for democracy. “Elon Musk will have to learn the hard way what everyone who has run Twitter has learned,” Conner said. “An unmoderated space is not one that functions for long.”
If Twitter does change, though, allowing more harassment and hate speech, it would be like a burger restaurant suddenly becoming vegetarian, she said.
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