Former Twitter executive slams Elon Musk’s “naive” free-speech ideas

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A former Twitter executive, Jason Goldman, has taken issue with Elon Musk targeting current employees in his recent tweets.

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Jason Goldman, a member of Twitter Inc.’s founding team and former board member, criticised Elon Musk’s plan to relax speech restrictions on the platform, saying it “reveals a very naive, unserious approach to the content moderation issues he will face.”

“You absolutely should not allow the prospective owner of the company to troll your employees for the decisions that they made,” Goldman, who also has worked for Google and the Obama administration, said in an interview on Bloomberg Television. Musk has said that Twitter needs to be politically neutral and become a digital town square where anything can be discussed — unless the speech is barred by law.

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