More execs are leaving the company. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Two other top Twitter executives are leaving the company. Yoel Roth, Twitterâs head of trust and safety, and Robin Wheeler, the head of ad sales, are both out. First reported by Platformerâs Zoe Schiffer and Casey Newton, the news was confirmed to The Vergeâs Alex Heath by two people familiar with the matter. The two executives resigned, according to Bloombergâs Kurt Wagner.
Both leaders had taken public-facing roles in these still-early days of Elon Muskâs Twitter ownership. Roth has repeatedly posted on Twitter to try and assuage user fears about falling moderation under Muskâs regime and despite the companyâs recent mass layoffs. Wheeler directed a Twitter Space meeting this week with Musk to try and calm advertisers concerned about the future of the platform.
Many advertisers have already left Twitter, and while Musk is trying to turn Twitter into a subscription business, he told employees in a staff meeting on Thursday that âbankruptcy isnât out of the question,â Schiffer reported.
Roth and Wheeler are just the latest execs to leave as Elon continues to put his stamp on the social media platform. Shortly after taking over the company near the end of October, Musk ousted former CEO Parag Agrawal, former CFO Neg Segal, former policy chief Vijaya Gadde, and general counsel Sean Edgett. Chief privacy officer Damien Kieran, chief information security officer Lea Kissner, and chief compliance officer Marianne Fogarty all resigned as well. The former SVP of finance resigned on Wednesday.
Twitter didnât immediately reply to a request for comment. The company no longer has a communications department.