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Twitter's hectic overhaul under Musk puts world's regulators on alert

In a rare intervention on Thursday, the US Federal Trade Commission said that it was tracking developments with "deep concern" and said that "no CEO or company is above the law"

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Thomas Seal | Bloomberg
Twitter Inc.’s frenetic overhaul under new owner Elon Musk is attracting attention from senior politicians and regulators worldwide, who are telling the world’s richest man they’re ready to hold his new acquisition to data protection, content moderation and employment law.
In the days since the SpaceX and Tesla Chief Executive Officer took charge, Musk has ordered thousands of job cuts and changed a string of central policies at San Francisco-based Twitter. There have also been senior voluntary departures: Since Wednesday, Head of Trust and Safety Yoel Roth, Chief Information Security Officer Lea Kissner, Chief Privacy Officer Damien Kieran and Chief Compliance

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