Twitter reportedly lost a second chief security officer in just 24 hours.
The company’s head of brand safety and advertising quality, AJ Brown, has resigned – just a day after trust and safety chief Ella Irwin also resigned, according to Wall Street. Log.
The two departures come after controversy on the platform over restrictions on the show ‘What’s a Woman?’ from the Daily Wire. documentary, which sees one of the right-wing media’s columnists, Matt Walsh, questioning the transgender movement.
Irwin, who resigned on Thursday, was in charge of content moderation decisions.
It’s unclear if the exits had anything to do with Musk overriding a decision made by Twitter executives regarding the Daily Wire documentary.
Elon Musk’s Twitter lost two top security and publicity officials in just 24 hours
The company’s head of brand safety and advertising quality, AJ Brown, has resigned – just a day after head of trust and safety, Ella Irwin (pictured), also resigned.
On Thursday, Daily Wire CEO Jeremy Boreing claimed Twitter representatives told him the platform “would no longer provide us with any support and would in fact limit the scope of the film and label it ‘hateful conduct’ by due to “gender error”.
Musk responded to several complaints about the censorship, saying it was an employee error and the issue would be fixed on Friday. Indeed, Twitter users could share the documentary by Friday, as Musk himself did.
Irwin, who joined Twitter in June 2022, took over as head of the trust and safety team in November when former chief Yoel Roth stepped down.
Kara Swisher, a tech journalist and frequent critic of Musk, called Irwin an “Elon loyalist” who was “thrown to the curb.”
Twitter suffered a massive loss of ad revenue following Elon Musk’s $44 billion takeover last year because companies don’t want their products advertised alongside controversial content.
Brown was the senior executive who assured advertisers that they had to trust Twitter to host their advertising content.
In December, with Irwin taking over from Roth, Twitter disbanded its Trust and Safety Council, the advisory group of about 100 independent civil, human rights and other organizations the company formed in 2016 to address hate speech, child exploitation, suicide, self-harm, and other issues on the platform.
The board was to meet with representatives from Twitter. But Twitter notified the group via email that it was disbanding it shortly before the reunion, according to multiple members.
Former NBCUniversal ad sales chief Linda Yaccarino was recently named Twitter’s incoming CEO, but has yet to start her job.
On May 12, Musk announced that Yaccarino will “primarily focus on business operations, while I will focus on product design and new technologies.”
Former NBCUniversal ad sales chief Linda Yaccarino was recently named Twitter’s incoming CEO, but hasn’t started work yet.
Twitter’s revenue comes primarily from advertising – in 2021 it accounted for 90% of revenue.
In January, the company suffered a 40% drop in revenue since 2022 as more than 500 advertisers suspend spending on the microblogging site.
A recent valuation by Fidelity of its stake in the social media giant showed the company has lost value as its stake – $20 million in October – is down to just $6.55 million. .
In January, a report by Fidelity indicated that the value was in free fall and had fallen to $7.8 million after a massive drop in November as well.
Musk has repeatedly admitted he overpaid for Twitter when he bought it in October for a whopping $44 billion.
In late March, Musk said he thought Twitter was worth “less than half” what it cost him to buy it in the fall.
In a company-wide email, he said the social media giant had lost so much money since its initial purchase that it was only valued at $20 billion.
