{"id":7709,"date":"2022-11-06T00:40:14","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T23:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/06\/un-urges-elon-musk-to-ensure-twitter-respects-human-rights\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T00:40:14","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T23:40:14","slug":"un-urges-elon-musk-to-ensure-twitter-respects-human-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/06\/un-urges-elon-musk-to-ensure-twitter-respects-human-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"UN urges Elon Musk to ensure Twitter respects human rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Volker T\u00fcrk says reports of platform\u2019s human rights team being laid off is \u2018not an encouraging start\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk has been urged by the UN to make respect for human rights central to Twitter after suggestions that as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/nov\/05\/elon-musk-defends-twitter-layoffs-saying-staff-given-three-months-pay\">many as half of its more than 7,500 staff<\/a> could be sacked.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/en\/press-releases\/2022\/11\/un-human-rights-chief-turk-issues-open-letter-twitters-elon-musk\">an open letter<\/a>, Volker T\u00fcrk, the UN high commissioner for human rights, said that reports of the new owner laying off the platform\u2019s entire human rights team were \u201cnot, from my perspective, an encouraging start\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/nov\/06\/un-urges-elon-musk-to-ensure-twitter-respects-human-rights\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/d7a63136716cb12116bd59581af70feaddacb85e\/0_1_3500_2101\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=82cc339c886dfb44c0bbf929282d5278\" title=\"UN urges Elon Musk to ensure Twitter respects human rights\" \/>Volker T\u00fcrk says reports of platform\u2019s human rights team being laid off is \u2018not an encouraging start\u2019<br \/>\nElon Musk has been urged by the UN to make respect for human rights central to Twitter after suggestions that as many as half of its more than 7,500 staff could be sacked.<br \/>\nIn an open letter, Volker T\u00fcrk, the UN high commissioner for human rights, said that reports of the new owner laying off the platform\u2019s entire human rights team were \u201cnot, from my perspective, an encouraging start\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volker T\u00fcrk says reports of platform\u2019s human rights team being laid off is \u2018not an encouraging start\u2019 Elon Musk has been urged by the UN to make respect for human rights central to Twitter after suggestions that as many as half of its more than 7,500 staff could be sacked. In an open letter, Volker &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/06\/un-urges-elon-musk-to-ensure-twitter-respects-human-rights\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UN urges Elon Musk to ensure Twitter respects human rights<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7709"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}