X’s world affairs head, Nick Pickles, confirms departure after a decade working on the platform beforehand often called Twitter
Elon Musk’s X (previously often called Twitter) has misplaced one other senior government who has performed a notable function on the platform.
X’s world affairs head Nick Pickles in a tweet on Thursday introduced “after greater than ten years, tomorrow can be my final day at X. It’s been an unimaginable journey.”
There was no fast cause given for the Pickles resignation, but it surely comes after X’s head of enterprise operations, Joe Benarroch, had left the corporate in June 2024. It needs to be famous that Benarroch, a former NBCUniversal government, had solely joined X in June 2023.
After greater than ten years, tomorrow can be my final day at X. It’s been an unimaginable journey.
The fixed throughout my time at Twitter and X has been the wonderful individuals I’ve labored with inside and outdoors the corporate. It’s been a privilege to steer the @globalaffairs crew and I…
— Nick Pickles (@nickpickles) September 6, 2024
Nick Pickles
In his resignation tweet on Thursday, Nick Pickles defined he had “made the choice to go away a number of months in the past”, however was working with CEO Linda Yaccarino by way of the transition.
Pickles didn’t present any trace to his future plans.
Notably, Yaccarino didn’t seem to publicly acknowledge and even thank Nick Pickles for his decade of service at Twitter.
Pickles had joined Twitter (because it was then) in 2014 within the London workplace, however was to play a outstanding function on the platform within the following years.
In January 2021 for instance Pickles appeared earlier than British MPs and was questioned over Twitter’s coverage on hate content material and the function of social media platforms.
That got here quickly after supporters of then President Donald Trump had stormed into the Capitol constructing on Wednesday 6 January 2021 in an tried rebellion, which left 5 individuals lifeless, together with a police officer, with lots of extra injured.
Musk’s chaotic tenure
Pickles remained at Twitter within the chaos and turmoil of Elon Musk’s controversial takeover, which noticed Musk dissolve its board of administrators and fireplace senior administration, which in flip prompted a mass exodus of executives.
Within the mass culling of executives, Dublin-based Sinead McSweeney, world vp for public coverage (liable for interacting with lawmakers and civil society on points together with free speech, privateness and on-line security) had left the agency, with Nick Pickles taking up McSweeney’s function.
Pickles, who had been a senior director for world public coverage technique, was appointed the Vice President of World Affairs for X in 2023.
In response to the Monetary Instances, Pickles was the corporate’s spokesperson in battles with a number of governments, together with in Brazil, which final week suspended entry to the social community within the nation amid a row with Elon Musk.