A Look At Key Twitter Teams Axed By Elon Musk So Far

Days after taking control of Twitter, Elon Musk, on Friday, began firing hundreds of employees in departments across the company.

Days after taking control of Twitter, Elon Musk, on Friday, began firing hundreds of employees in departments across the company.

According to Tech Crunch, key Twitter teams including Human Rights & Accessibility, Al Ethics and Curation have so far been dismissed by the Tesla CEO.

The specific news was also confirmed by dismissed employees on social media.

Several of them sent farewell messages confirming that the new head of the microblogging site, Musk, had been allowed out of the Twitter collective.

human rights

In a tweet, former Twitter human rights adviser Shannon Raj Singh shared the news that the company's human rights team was dismissed on Friday.

“Yesterday was my last day on Twitter: the entire human rights team has been removed from the company.

I am very proud of the work we have done to implement the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, to protect the world's most vulnerable. conflicts and crises including Ethiopia, Afghanistan and Ukraine,

and advocate for the needs of those who are particularly at risk of human rights abuse by virtue of their presence on social media, such as journalists and human rights defenders,” Shannon’s Twitter post stated.

The team has worked to protect users facing human rights abuses around the world, including activists,

Journalists and people affected by conflicts such as the war in Ukraine.

Access experience

Former head of the Special Division Gerard Cohen confirmed the Twitter access experiment team's dismissal.

“I am officially no longer the engineering director of the Twitter Accessibility Experimentation team.

I have words, the entire engineering team has been abandoned. Before I think of my thoughts, I want to respect them.

If you're looking to hire some outstanding accessibility engineers, keep reading."

The team improved the product for people with disabilities.

Tech Crunch reported that the team still had a lot of work to do before it was disbanded.

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