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Twitter's second head of trust and safety under owner Elon Musk has resigned, according to reports:
Ella Irwin took the post when previous head Yoel Roth left in November 2022 - a month after Mr Musk took over the company.
The head of trust and safety is tasked with content moderation, a topic which has come under the spotlight since Mr Musk's takeover.
The BBC has approached Twitter and Ms Irwin for comment.
She confirmed to both Reuters and the Wall Street Journal that she has stepped down. The reason for her resignation is unclear.
However, it comes a day after Mr Musk publicly criticised a content moderation decision made at Twitter.
He called the decision to limit the visibility of a video over allegations of misgendering, "a mistake by many people at Twitter".
"Whether or not you agree with using someone's preferred pronouns, not doing so is at most rude and certainly breaks no laws," he wrote.
It comes a week after the social media platform pulled out of the European Union's voluntary code to fight disinformation.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday June 06, @11:10PM (2 children)
If you want to be known/called by "they/them/their/he(if you're outwardly visible as a woman)/she(if you're outwardly visible as a man)/whatever knew thing i haven't caught up with yet, then you'll have to wear a shirt or carry a sign UNLESS you are okay if i mis-label you.
In teh future, i will try to be respectful and remember, but again: i am old and may forget. PLEASE don't have a fit. Tell me and i will probably apologize.
But i understand. If you continuously(?) called me Ma'am and she, we'd have a problem especially if intentional.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 07, @06:57AM
Perfectly reasonable, and you will find most of us who don't fit the binary norm will be a-okay with it. In the cases where someone arcs up it's likely just because you happened to be the drop that overflowed their cup. As you already concluded, continually being called the wrong thing will rub on your nerves. A bit of compassion all around and we'll all be fine.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Wednesday June 07, @03:22PM
I can tell you first hand that's already how it works. I can't tell you that blowups over misunderstandings never happen, but I can tell you I've met and worked with a few people in a variety of circumstances and innocent mixups are not a landmine ready to go off. I have never seen a fit at all. Come to think of it I'm not sure why I ever thought there wouldn't be some room for error. I kinda wonder if 90's tv is to blame.
Honestly I think you'll be fine, man.
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