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Volker Turk, the new United Nations high commissioner for human rights, yesterday urged Twitter owner Elon Musk to make respect for human rights central to the social media platform, amid savage cuts to the tech company's staff under its new chief.
In an open letter, Turk said that reports of the new owner laying off the platform's entire human rights team were not, from my perspective, an encouraging start".
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