{"id":20413,"date":"2022-11-06T08:05:49","date_gmt":"2022-11-06T08:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/?p=20413"},"modified":"2022-11-06T08:05:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T08:05:49","slug":"un-urges-musk-to-safeguard-human-rights-at-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/2022\/11\/06\/un-urges-musk-to-safeguard-human-rights-at-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"UN urges Musk to safeguard human rights at Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong class=\"location-names\">GENEVA: <\/strong>The UN\u00a0High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker T\u00fcrk, on Saturday issued an open letter to Elon Musk, the new owner of Twitter Inc, urging him to &#8220;ensure human rights are central to the management of Twitter&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter Inc\u00a0laid off half its workforce\u00a0on Friday and tweets by staff of the social media company said the team responsible for human rights was among those affected, a development which T\u00fcrk described as not &#8220;an encouraging start&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Twitter is part of a global revolution that has transformed how we communicate,&#8221; T\u00fcrk said in\u00a0the letter. &#8220;But I write with concern and apprehension about our digital public square and Twitter&#8217;s role in it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Like all companies, Twitter needs to understand the harms associated with its platform and take steps to address them,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Respect for our shared human rights should set the guardrails for the platform&#8217;s use and evolution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In short, I urge you to ensure human rights are central to the management of Twitter under your leadership,&#8221; the High Commissioner said.<\/p>\n<p>Friday&#8217;s layoffs capped a week of chaos and uncertainty about Twitter&#8217;s future under Musk, the world&#8217;s richest person, who tweeted on Friday that the service was experiencing a &#8220;massive drop in revenue&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GENEVA: The UN\u00a0High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker T\u00fcrk, on Saturday issued an open letter to Elon Musk, the new owner of Twitter Inc, urging him to &#8220;ensure human rights are central to the management of Twitter&#8221;. Twitter Inc\u00a0laid off half its workforce\u00a0on Friday and tweets by staff of the social media company said the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20414,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,40],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20413","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-international","8":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20415,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20413\/revisions\/20415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}