Twitter’s head of trust and safety resigns from Elon Musk’s platform

Ella Irwin joined Twitter after her predecessor Yoel Roth resigned in November

Twitter’s head of trust and safety says she has resigned from Elon Musk’s social media platform.

Ella Irwin was in charge of content moderation at the company that has faced allegations of an increase in harmful content since the Tesla chief executive bought the company last October.

Ms Irwin only took over the job last November from Yoel Roth after he resigned from the San Francisco-based company as well. She confirmed her resignation to Reuters on Thursday.

Neither Ms Irwin nor Mr Musk posted on Twitter about her departure.

Mr Musk announced earlier this month that he was hiring Linda Yaccarino, NBCUniversal’s former advertising chief, to replace him as Twitter’s new chief executive.

Twitter investor Fidelity says the company is now worth just a third of the $44bn that the billionaire paid for it. Mr Musk has publicly admitted he paid too much for the company, a deal he tried to get out of repeatedly before closing it.

Mr Musk has made huge staff cuts since he bought the company, with the original headcount of around 7,5000 employees being slashed to below 2,000 by February.

The company has struggled to keep advertisers, with many company’s not wanting their brands or products to appear alongside unsuitable and unmoderated content.

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