After more than ten years, tomorrow will be my last day at X.
Many other executives were, of course, fired by Musk and are currently suing overunpaid severance contracts.
Musk bought Twitter for about $45 billion and its worth roughly $19 billiontoday.
Nick Pickles, head of global affairs at X, listens during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on June 26, 2019.© Photographer: Anna Moneymaker/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Pickles tenure as the head of global affairs was controversial, even before Musk bought the site.
Twitters responses to various questions about online safety were the most perplexing.
Picklestried to explainwhy sharing child sexual abuse material on X wasnt an automatic ban from the platform.
But there are cases globally where people do share this content out of outrage.
But Australian senators clearly werent having it.
Well, its actually a crime.
Its a crime, and it should be suspended permanently, Polley continued.
And the conversation turned to a then-recent instance when a right-wing influencer shared awatermarked image of child sexual abuse.
Australian Senator David Shoebridgepointed outthat Musk personally intervened to reinstate the account that had shared the heinous image.
And he said that some accounts may only be banned after sharing more than one offending image.
Anyone whos ever tried to start a social media platform will tell you that content moderation is hard.
But leaders at Bluesky have been talking this week about the growing pains.
While we detect confirmed cases quickly, manual review is still necessary for NCMEC reports.
This increase impacts our mods, who are repeatedly exposed to such content.
But X really does seem to be in a class of its own.
And that goes a long way for any insecure billionaire with more money than sense.
Gizmodo will update this post if we hear back.
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