Roth said he left the company following the botched launch of the upgraded Twitter Blue subscription program after Elon Musk ignored his team’s warnings about possible issues tied to the rollout
Mr. Roth, speaking Tuesday at the Knight Foundation’s conference on democracy in the digital age, said he felt his role wasn’t needed if the new Twitter leadership wasn’t going to listen to his team’s guidance.
“We had a system of governance. It was rules-based. We enforced our rules as written,” said Mr. Roth, who had worked in trust and safety at Twitter since 2015 and . “We did it transparently, and when that system of governance went away, you don’t need a head of trust and safety anymore.”Catch up on the headlines, understand the news and make better decisions, free in your inbox every day.The new version of Twitter Blue started being rolled out after the Nov. 8 midterm elections and was priced at about $8 a month—up from about $5 a month.
“It went exactly off the rails in the way that we anticipated,” Mr. Roth said during the conversation with journalist Kara Swisher. “It’s not that it was a surprise.”
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