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About half of the social media site's workforce - around 3,700
employees - have been laid off since Elon Musk took charge of
the company and introduced a cost-cutting drive.
More than a 1,000 have resigned, among them Yoel Roth, the
company's former head of trust and safety.
"As Twitter moves into a new phase, we are reevaluating how best
to bring external insights into our product and policy
development work. As part of this process, we have decided that
the Trust and Safety Council is not the best structure to do
this," an email sent to the Trust and Safety Council members,
seen by Reuters, said.
A Twitter page for the group has been deleted.
The council comprised of various civil rights organizations,
academics and other bodies that advocated for safety and advised
Twitter as it developed products, programs, and rules, according
to a web archive for the page.
Twitter did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for
comment.
"Our work to make Twitter a safe, informative place will be
moving faster and more aggressively than ever before and we will
continue to welcome your ideas going forward about how to
achieve this goal," the email from Twitter said.
The email from Twitter arrived less than an hour before members
of the council were expecting to meet with company executives
via Zoom, the Washington Post reported earlier.
Last week, three members of the Council resigned citing concern
for the safety of Twitter users.
"It is clear from research evidence that, contrary to claims by
Elon Musk, the safety and wellbeing of Twitter's users are on
the decline," council member Anne Collier had tweeted.
Musk had responded on the micro blogging site accusing council
members of refusing to take action on child exploitation, a
claim former CEO Jack Dorsey said was "false".
(Reporting by Sneha Bhowmik and Abinaya Vijayaraghavan in
Bengaluru; Editing by Nivedita Bhattacharjee)
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