Inman Grant -- herself a former Twitter employee -- has also fired off a formal warning to Google for falling short of its responsibilities around tackling child abuse material.
This combination of pictures created on October 10, 2023, shows SpaceX, Twitter and electric car maker Tesla CEO Elon Musk during his visit at the Vivatech technology startups and innovation fair at the Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris, on June 16, 2023 and the new Twitter logo rebranded as X, pictured on a screen in Paris on July 24, 2023.
Billionaire Musk has slashed more than 80 percent of X’s global workforce since his takeover, including many of its content moderators who are responsible for stamping out abuse. “Both scenarios are concerning to us and suggest they are not living up to their responsibilities and the expectations of the Australian community.”
In June this year, she raised concerns about a spike in more general “toxicity and hate” following Musk’s takeover in October last year.AFP requested comment from X but the company’s response was an email saying: “Busy now, please check back later.”