The new head of Twitter’s Trust and Safety division revealed that the social media platform is moving quickly on addressing possibly problematic posts under new owner Elon Musk.
“For now, I think we are biasing towards moving quickly and figuring out the details in some of these areas after,” said Ella Irwin, the Twitter official, in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. Irwin took the job in November following an exodus of former Twitter managers after Musk bought the company in October.
In one recent example, Twitter suspended rapper Kanye “Ye” West after he posted a swastika inside a Star of David following a stream of controversial comments in interviews and videos about Jewish people. Twitter said that West was banned for “incitement to violence.”…