According to Ukrinform’s report, this is stated in Turk’s open letter.

The letter followed reports that half of Twitter’s staff, including the human rights team, had been laid off. Turk did not call it a “comfortable start”.

“Twitter needs to understand the harm associated with its platform and take action to address it. Respect for our common human rights should create barriers to the use and development of the platform. In short, under your leadership, I urge you to put human rights at the center of Twitter’s governance,” he said.

Turk urged Twitter to uphold its rights to privacy and freedom of expression under applicable law.

In addition, according to him, the company is obliged to refrain from the expansion of content that harms the rights of other people. The commissioner said Twitter’s content moderation policy should continue to ban hate speech on the platform.

Turk also stressed that it is vital that Twitter refrains from tracking users and collecting relevant data, and that it is vital to resist unreasonable requests for user data from governments to the extent possible by applicable law.

As reported by Ukrinform, on October 27, Elon Musk finalized an agreement to acquire the Twitter company for $44 billion. He dissolved the board of directors soon after purchasing Twitter and consolidated his control over the company.

Commenting on Twitter’s downsizing, Musk said, “With the company losing more than $4 million a day, unfortunately there is no choice.”

At the same time, he added that all those who were laid off were “offered three months’ severance pay, which is 50% more than the law stipulates.”

Twitter employees filed a class action lawsuit against the company in San Francisco federal court over Elon Musk’s plan to fire nearly 3,700 people without proper notice in violation of federal and California law.

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