Ladies Who Code founder Reshma Saujani shared what she hoped to see from Twitter now that Elon Musk has taken over the platform after buying it. Saujani was talking with Emily Chang, host of Bloomberg Expertise. Chang needed to know Saujani’s ideas on Twitter’s new route beneath Elon Musk.
Saujani identified that Twitter and social media have been fairly harsh on ladies, women, and other people of shade.
“We all know that social media, Twitter, has been a poisonous place for girls and women and for folks of shade and that there’s obtained to be a method to reasonable content material with out making folks really feel like on daily basis they’re going to face some quantity of abuse or be known as a reputation or be proven content material that’s going to be actually poisonous for them.”
“I feel that, once more, this is a chance for them to do one thing proper and to do one thing that uplifts folks of shade and girls. We’ll see if that truly occurs.”
Chang additionally requested Saujani about her issues about misinformation and the voices of ladies not being heard. Saujani stated was very involved and that a number of her college students have been engaged on.
“I feel the remark that was simply made by the commissioner and seeing what occurs with Twitter, with Elon Musk taking on Twitter to ensure that we proceed to root out disinformation and that everyone has entry to truthful and simply and dependable info, is crucial.”
Though it hasn’t been fairly 14 days since Elon Musk purchased Twitter and took over, he has shortly been making a number of modifications. Beneath his management, Twitter just lately suspended verified accounts that have been impersonating him however has additionally allowed his jet’s flight tracker to proceed to be energetic on Twitter regardless of the risk to his personal security.
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