Twitter’s head of trust and safety Ella Irwin says the company manually reviewed “any and all accounts” that violated its new policy by posting links to ElonJet (Sheila Dang/Reuters)

Bloomberg:
Sources describe how Twitter’s Trust and Safety VP Ella Irwin is helping carry out Elon Musk’s whims, even when they break Twitter’s established protocols  —  On a day hundreds of Twitter Inc. employees were debating whether to resign, Ella Irwin showed up with a pep talk.

Sheila Dang / Reuters:
In an email to advertisers, Twitter says it will launch controls to prevent ads from showing up next to tweets containing certain keywords as soon as next week  —  Twitter Inc will roll out new controls as soon as next week to let companies prevent their ads from appearing above …

The Information:
Source: Ella Irwin, Twitter’s VP of product focused on health and services since June 2022, will be the new head of trust and safety, replacing Yoel Roth  —  Twitter executive Ella Irwin will take over as the head of trust and safety, replacing Yoel Roth, a well-known executive who resigned …

Reuters:
Twitter’s VP of trust and safety Ella Irwin says Twitter is heavily using automation to moderate speech, and favoring distribution restrictions to removal  —  Elon Musk’s Twitter is leaning heavily on automation to moderate content, doing away with certain manual reviews and favoring restrictions …

Jim Brunner / The Seattle Times:
A Washington court rules Meta repeatedly violated the state’s campaign finance transparency law for political ads and must pay penalties yet to be determined  —  Meta, Facebook’s parent company, repeatedly and intentionally violated Washington campaign-ad transparency law and must pay penalties yet …

Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
After Bari Weiss shared screenshots of internal systems, Twitter’s trust and safety head Ella Irwin says “reporters were not accessing user DMs”  —  Elon Musk is giving outside writers unprecedented access to internal Twitter Inc. information, instructing the current head of trust …