A top Twitter official said that some content moderation work on the social media website has been halted following Elon Musk’s $44 billion takeover of the company last week.
Yoel Roth, the head of safety and integrity for Twitter, responded to a Bloomberg News story that claimed many Twitter employees were denied access to content moderation tools after Musk’s takeover.
“This is exactly what we (or any company) should be doing in the midst of a corporate transition to reduce opportunities for insider risk,” Roth wrote on the platform. “We’re still enforcing our rules at scale.”
Roth wrote on Monday that Twitter has removed more than 1,500 accounts and reduced views of posts in connection to allegedly “hateful conduct” on the website. He wrote that impressions don’t tell the entire story and that Twitter is going to “continue investing in policy and technology to make things better.”…