Nick Pickles, head of global affairs at X, listens during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on June 26, 2019.Elon Musk’s decision in 2023 to reinstate a notorious account on the social media platform that shared child sexual abuse material, is leaving the company according to a tweet. Pickles says he made the decision to leave ““After more than ten years, tomorrow will be my last day at X.
Pickles’ tenure as the head of global affairs was controversial, even before Musk bought the site. But it was his testimony in front of an Australian parliamentary hearing about online content moderation onthat was genuinely shocking. The Australian Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law Enforcement heard from a number of big tech companies like Google and Facebook. Twitter’s responses to various questions about online safety were the most perplexing.
Polley pointed out that Australia had laws against allowing people to share child abuse images online, just as every other country does. Oddly enough, Pickles tried to defend the X policies that allowed the right-wing influencer to say on the platform, which remains the case to this day. And he said that some accounts may only be banned after sharing more than one offending image. The Australian senator clearlywhat she was hearing, asking Pickles if he really said that accounts may only be banned after repeatedly sharing child sexual abuse images.