Internal audio of Monday’s Twitter meeting leaked to Project Veritas reveals that leadership is fully cognizant of the free speech agenda that new owner Elon Musk wants to bring to the table.
Project Veritas obtained a 45 minute recording of a company-wide call during which Twitter employees questioned board member, Bret Taylor, and CEO, Parag Agrawal, about the company’s direction following Elon Musk’s purchase of the social media platform.
Taylor began by saying, "I also just want to acknowledge all the emotions of today. It is an emotional day. I want to acknowledge it. By law, we are required to act in the best interest of our shareholders."
Agrawal echoed the sentiments and said, "It’s important to acknowledge that all of you have many different feelings about what is happening."
He continued, "Many of you are concerned, some of you excited, many people here are waiting to understand how this goes and have an open mind."
Agrawal added that the company’s current "content moderation" policies are "fundamental to keeping Twitter safe and growing."
"We’ll be finding a way to have Elon talk with all of you at the soonest possible opportunity…As you’ve heard from all of us, we don’t have all the answers."
Leslie Berland, the CMO at Twitter, said: "Elon made it clear in public that a large part of the reason he bought the platform was because of our moderation policies and disagreements in how we deal with health. This puts Twitter service and Trust and Safety as well as anybody who cares about health on the platform in a very difficult position."
Berland later responded to the audio leak by saying during this meeting she was reading questions from other staff.
Hi! At every Twitter global all-hands, I read real-time Qs that come in from our employees. It’s always open and unfiltered. An audio clip of me reading was leaked, edited and misrepresented as my (and the company’s) views.
— Leslie Berland (@leslieberland) April 27, 2022
Agrawal was also heard saying, "I believe Twitter grows as a service, allows for more people to use the product and have a better experience because we’re able to make the conversation on Twitter be safe because we have built tools, processes for people to be able to feel safe and control their experiences. I believe that there is a lot of work we have to do to continue making that better. Sometimes that means more thoughtful moderation. Sometimes that means making things simpler. Sometimes that means changing product incentives to be able to solve problems through products sometimes instead of policies."
Elsewhere Tuesday, it was reported that Twitter Trust & Safety lead Vijaya Gadde got emotional with company staff in a reaction speech where she said the future of policies on the platform are currently unclear given the change in ownership.
It's unclear which insiders at the company leaked the audio to Project Veritas. But when it comes to company culture, according to a new New York Times piece, that some "employees have argued in internal messages seen by The Times that their co-workers have shifted too far to the left side of the political spectrum, making employees who support Mr. Musk’s plans too uncomfortable to speak up."
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