Twitter dissolved its Trust and Safety Council on Monday shortly before a meeting that was scheduled to be held, several media outlets reported.
According to an email sent by Twitter to the council members that was obtained by the CNN, the company wrote it was “reevaluating how best to bring external insights into our product and policy development work.” “As part of this process, we have decided that the Trust and Safety Council is not the best structure to do this,” it added.
In 2016, the platform had announced formation of the council “to ensure that people feel safe expressing themselves on Twitter.” Three members of the Trust and Safety Council resigned last week, saying that the “safety and well being of Twitter’s users are on the decline,” according to the Washington Post.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters, last month, that “when it comes to social media platforms it is their responsibility to make sure that when it comes to misinformation, when it comes to the hate that we’re seeing, that they take action, that they continue to take action.”
She added “we’re all monitoring what’s currently occurring. We see it with our own eyes of what you all are reporting and just for ourselves what is happening on Twitter.” She stressed that “social media companies have a responsibility to prevent their platforms from being used by any user to incite violence.”
The council was an advisory group of around 100 independent civil, human rights and other organizations that the company formed in 2016 to address hate speech, child exploitation, suicide, self-harm and other problems on the platform. – KUNA
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