During the last two weeks. Elon has proven that he cares solely about recouping the losses he’s incurring because of failing to get out of his binding obligation to purchase Twitter. He selected to enter into that settlement! All of us are being put via this because of the alternatives he made.

Elon has proven that his solely precedence with Twitter customers is methods to monetize them. I don’t consider he cares in regards to the human rights activists. the dissidents, our customers in un-monetizable areas, and all the opposite customers who’ve made Twitter the worldwide city sq. you have got all spent so lengthy constructing, and all of us love.

I’ve heard Alex Spiro (present head of Authorized) say that Elon is prepared to tackle an enormous quantity of threat in relation to this firm and its customers, as a result of “Elon places rockets into house, he’s not afraid of the FTC.” I’ve heard one other chief within the Authorized division say that due to the tight SLA’s (of two weeks?!) between product inception > launch, Authorized will “should shift the burden to engineers” to self-certify compliance with FTC necessities and different legal guidelines. This can put big quantity of non-public, skilled and authorized threat onto engineers: I anticipate that every one of you’ll de pressured by administration into pushing out modifications that may doubtless result in main incidents.

All of that is extraordinarily harmful for our customers. Additionally, provided that the FTC can (and can!) tremendous Twitter BILLIONS of {dollars} pursuant to the FTC Consent Order, extraordinarily detrimental to Twitter’s longevity as a platform. Our customers deserve so a lot better than this.

In the event you really feel uncomfortable about something you’re being requested to do, you’ll be able to name Twitter’s Ethics Hotline at (800) 275-4843 or submit a report at ethicshelpline.twitter.com. Please additionally be aware the FTC’s quantity is: 1-877-FTC-HELP. You may additionally keep in mind that Mudge reached out to httos://whistlebloweraid.org

I want you all luck. It’s been such an honor to work with all of you. And I’ll be taking a day of PTO at the moment.