UN urges Musk to safeguard human rights at Twitter By Reuters

GENEVA (Reuters) – The U.N. Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, on Saturday issued an open letter to Elon Musk, the brand new proprietor of Twitter Inc (NYSE:), urging him to “guarantee human rights are central to the administration of Twitter”.

Twitter Inc laid off half its workforce on Friday and tweets by workers of the social media firm stated the workforce answerable for human rights was amongst these affected, a growth which Türk described as not “an encouraging begin”.

“Twitter is a part of a world revolution that has reworked how we talk,” Türk stated within the letter. “However I write with concern and apprehension about our digital public sq. and Twitter’s position in it.”

“Like all corporations, Twitter wants to grasp the harms related to its platform and take steps to handle them,” he added. “Respect for our shared human rights ought to set the guardrails for the platform’s use and evolution.”

“In brief, I urge you to make sure human rights are central to the administration of Twitter beneath your management,” the Excessive Commissioner stated.

Friday’s layoffs capped per week of chaos and uncertainty about Twitter’s future beneath Musk, the world’s richest individual, who tweeted on Friday that the service was experiencing a “large drop in income”.