Civic Integrity at Twitter Pre- and Post-Elon Musk: w/ Rebecca Thein and Theodora Skeadas

The acquisition of Twitter broke, well, Twitter. Around 90% of the workforce left the company, leaving shells of former teams to handle the same responsibility. 

Today, we welcome two guests from Twitter’s civic integrity team. We welcome new guest Rebecca Thein. Rebecca, was a senior engineering technical program manager for Twitter’s Information Integrity team. She is also a Digital Sherlock for the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab).

Theodora Skeadas is a returning guest from our previous episode! She managed public policy at Twitter and was recently elected as an Elected Director of the Harvard Alumni Association.

We answer the following questions on today’s episode:

• How much was the civic integrity team hurt by the acquisition?

• What are candidate labels?

• How did Twitter prioritize its elections?

• What did the org structure of Twitter look like pre and post acquisition?

• And finally, what is this famous Halloween party that all the ex-Twitter folks are talking about?

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Credits:

Hosted by Theo Skeadas

Produced and edited by Talha Baig

Music by Zhao Shen

Special Thanks to Rachel, Sean, Cass and Sahar for their continued support