A former head of safety at Twitter shared his concerns about Elon Musk

Yoel Roth, the company's former head of trust and safety, said in his first interview since abruptly quitting Twitter that he believes the platform is less safe under Elon Musk. Roth said, "I don't," when asked if he still thought Twitter was safer after Musk's takeover during a Knight Foundation event.

A former head of safety at Twitter shared his concerns about Elon Musk

.@karaswisher: You tweeted that Twitter was actually safer under Elon. Do you still feel that way?

Former Twitter trust & safety head Yoel Roth (@yoyoel): I don't

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 29, 2022

Roth, who has been a part of Twitter's policy team for a long time, talked about the coordinated trolling campaign that made racist comments more common on the platform. Musk frequently drew attention to his tweets and cited his explanations of how Twitter was preventing racist attacks.
However, that's what roth said despite the fact that he was at first hopeful, a breakdown in "procedural authenticity" at last made him leave.He mentioned that Musk had stated that he wanted to establish a "moderation council" prior to making major policy decisions at Twitter; however, Musk quickly demonstrated that he would prefer to make decisions on his own. Roth stated, "I was optimistic on the basis of that. He would say things that were consistent with establishing a moderation council and that were consistent with not making capricious, unilateral decisions."In the end, my optimism waned.