X international affairs head Nick Pickles resigns

(Reuters) – X’s international affairs head Nick Pickles stated on Thursday he’s quitting after a decade with the social media firm previously known as Twitter.

Pickles, who joined the corporate in 2014, stated he had determined to go away X a number of months in the past and was working with the Chief Government Linda Yaccarino by way of the transition.

“After greater than ten years, tomorrow will likely be my final day at X. It has been an unbelievable journey,” he stated.

It was not instantly clear what his subsequent plans have been, or why he made the choice to give up.

Elon Musk-owned X and Nick Pickles didn’t instantly reply to Reuters requests for remark outdoors of normal enterprise hours.

In June, X’s head of enterprise operations, Joe Benarroch left the corporate, the Wall Avenue Journal reported, citing individuals conversant in the matter.

Pickles had began at X as a senior supervisor of their London workplace and was appointed the Vice President of International Affairs for X in 2023 after serving in a number of roles, his LinkedIn profile confirmed.

The Monetary Occasions reported that he was the corporate’s spokesperson in battles with a number of governments, together with in Brazil, which stated final week it was suspending entry to the social community within the nation.

The favored social media platform missed a court-imposed deadline to call a authorized consultant in Brazil, triggering the suspension.

Musk has argued that Supreme Court docket Justice Alexandre de Moraes was making an attempt to implement unjustified censorship, whereas the decide has insisted that X wants hate speech rules.

(Reporting by Harshita Meenaktshi in Bengaluru; Modifying by Nivedita Bhattacharjee)

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