The fact that Musk fired the text messaging service’s entire human rights team shortly after the Twitter takeover is not an encouraging start, from his point of view, according to the news.
Türk continued to write that he was concerned about the digital public sphere and Twitter’s role in it. Like all companies, Twitter should be aware of the damages that may occur on the digital platform and take the necessary precautions.
“Respect for our common human rights should be a guide for the use and development of the platform,” said the UN human rights commissioner. “In short, I ask you to make sure that human rights are critical for the Twitter administration under your leadership.”
Meanwhile, Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey also spoke. He apologized to employees for the mass layoffs. Twitter employees are responsible for their current situation. It allowed Twitter to grow very quickly.
A week after it was taken over by billionaire Elon Musk, Twitter laid off about half of its 7,500 employees on Friday. Musk had already fired Twitter management immediately after the takeover. Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion at the end of October.
Politicians and civil rights activists fear Musk may open the text message service to unchecked hate mail and misinformation, and unblock previously blocked user accounts like those of former US President Donald Trump.
(SDA)