Twitter cofounder says Elon Musk has undone positive changes that were made to the platform before his takeover
- Twitter cofounder Biz Stone said Elon Musk reversed positive changes on the site, per The Guardian.
- Stone said in the interview that Musk doesn't strike him as the right person to own Twitter.
Elon Musk has reversed some of the positive changes that were made to Twitter before the acquisition, according to Biz Stone, the platform's cofounder.
In an interview with The Guardian, Stone said he made advancements in morale and supervising content on Twitter after he rejoined the company in 2017.
"We made a lot of improvements in those areas. And that's all gone now," he told The Guardian.
Musk "doesn't seem like" the right person to own Twitter "but I could be wrong," he said.
Stone told The Guardian it was "really bad" that Twitter employees were named in the "Twitter Files," which related to how the company dealt with content moderation and the suspension of former President Donald Trump's account. The naming of employees can lead to "a lot of harassment," Stone added.
CNN reported that Yoel Roth, Twitter's former head of trust and safety, was forced to flee his home in December because of increasingly violent threats towards him. The threats came after Musk "appeared to endorse a tweet that baselessly accused Roth of being sympathetic to pedophilia," CNN reported.
Stone, who established Twitter with Jack Dorsey and other cofounders in 2006, said in The Guardian interview "it's always tough" and "not really a win-win situation" when you're in charge of a social-media company. Half of the users were happy with you, while the other half were angry at you, he added.
Stone said he wasn't sure whether Twitter was going to last forever. Twitter is experiencing financial difficulties, but Stone told The Guardian he thought the concept of the platform would survive. He added that "right now" things did not look good, however.
Twitter and representatives for Stone didn't immediately respond to Insider's request for comment made outside of normal US operating hours.