Irwin’s role as one of the top executives at Twitter has taken place during a tumultuous period at the company, as Musk has laid off thousands of employees and advertisers have fled. Twitter’s approach to content moderation has become much looser, and controversial, under Musk, who has described himself as a “free-speech absolutist.” Earlier this week, an anti-hate group said it had flagged 100 tweets with racist, homophobic, and other abusive content posted by users of Twitter’s premium $8 per month Twitter Blue service, and that 99 of the tweets were sill available on Twitter four days later. While it’s not yet clear why Irwin has left Twitter, sources at Twitter have speculated about whether her departure might be connected to Musk’s recent criticism of the company’s decision to moderate content from conservative news site the Daily Wire. A former Amazon director who joined in June 2022, a few months before Musk acquired Twitter in November, Irwin quickly earned the new Twitter owner’s trust and became one of his top executives at the company, overseeing content moderation, after the high-profile departure of the company’s former head of trust and safety, Yoel Roth.
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