Twitter is not safer under Elon Musk - and he has made 'alarming changes' to site, former exec warns

Twitter is not safer nether its caller proprietor Elon Musk, according to the platform's erstwhile caput of spot and safety.

Yoel Roth resigned from the societal networking tract earlier this period - and said the tract had started to stray from adhering to publically disposable policies towards decisions made by Mr Musk alone.

"One of my limits was if Twitter starts being ruled by dictatorial edict alternatively than by policy... there's nary longer a request for maine successful my role, doing what I do."

Many of the changes Mr Musk has made person been "sudden and alarming for employees and users alike", Mr Roth said successful a New York Times sentiment portion soon aft his resignation.

The Tesla billionaire laid disconnected astir fractional of the company's 8,000 workers - a determination that deed 15% of the spot and information department, Mr Roth had tweeted astatine the time.

Mr Musk's ill-fated foray into reinventing Twitter's verification strategy allowed users to wage for a verified tick connected their relationship - thing Mr Roth said was done contempt warnings and proposal from the spot and information team.

Soon afterwards, the level became a playground for spammers impersonating companies specified arsenic Nestle and Lockheed Martin.

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Mr Roth besides defended Twitter's determination to suspend Donald Trump from the tract aft the riot astatine the US Capitol connected 6 January past year, citing the hazard of further incitement of violence.

He said: "We saw the clearest imaginable illustration of what it looked similar for things to determination from online to off.

"We saw radical dormant successful the Capitol."

But Mr Musk tweeted connected 19 November that Mr Trump's relationship would beryllium reinstated, aft moving a astonishment Twitter canvass which saw a slim bulk ballot successful favour of the move.