After Elon Musk made his first offer to buy Twitter in April—before subsequently trying to renege on the deal—the company’s then CEO, Parag Agrawal, held a town hall with its reportedly “shock[ed] and dismay[ed]” workforce, which was not at all enthused about the billionaire becoming their new overlord. Seven months later, amid a raft of resignations and internal calls to blow the whistle on Musk, it does not appear that the new Twitter owner has won over any hearts or minds.
On Wednesday, three top Twitter executives—chief information security officer Lea Kissner, chief privacy officer Damien Kieran, and chief compliance officer Marianne Fogarty—left the company, one day before a major deadline to submit a compliance report to the Federal Trade Commission.
Over Twitter, Kissner confirmed that they had left the platform. Fogarty tweeted days before their departure: “I don’t watch Game of Thrones. I certainly don’t want to play it at work.” The trio’s departures come just after half the company was laid off. They also come amid fears that Musk is rolling out new features before they can be properly vetted. (For example, Twitter Blue, which allows people to pay a monthly fee for a blue “verification” check mark, cleared the way for dozens of accounts to impersonate high-profile individuals and brands, i.e., the whole reason verification badges were initially implemented in the first place.) They also follow reported resignations earlier this month by Leslie Berland, the...
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