Elon Musk has tweeted criticism of prime Twitter lawyer Vijaya Gadde, elevating additional questions on her future on the firm.

Gadde is the platform's head of authorized, coverage and belief and her groups are tasked with deciding the right way to reasonable content material. That has made her a goal of criticism from the proper, together with after Twitter restricted the attain of a New York Publish article about President Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, in 2020.

"Suspending the Twitter account of a serious information group for publishing a truthful story was clearly extremely inappropriate," Musk tweeted on Monday.

His remark got here in response to a tweet that included a screenshot from a Politico article that reported Gadde had cried throughout a gathering with the groups she oversees, shortly after Musk reached an settlement to purchase Twitter for about $44 billion on Monday.

Elon Musk and Vijaya Gadde
A essential tweet from Elon Musk about Vijaya Gadde raises the query if he'll hearth the Twitter lawyer. Above, Musk (L) attends the CAA pre-Oscar occasion at San Vicente Bungalows on March 25, 2022, in West Hollywood. Gadde (R) attends the "NYFW: The Reveals" #fashionflock occasion at The McKittrick Resort on September 9, 2015, in New York Metropolis. Randy Shropshire/Mike Coppola/Getty Photographs

Through the assembly with staff, she expressed considerations about how issues might change at Twitter beneath Musk's possession, in response to Politico. She additionally praised the work her groups have executed and urged staff to proceed working to do good on the firm.

Gadde had performed an instrumental function in negotiating the deal between Twitter and Musk, in response to Politico. Her function at Twitter has seen her concerned in main selections, together with the ban of all political promoting on the positioning and the banning of former president Donald Trump after the assault on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

However Musk, the world's richest man and a self-proclaimed free speech absolutist, has indicated that he would loosen the platform's content material moderation insurance policies and solely take away content material whether it is required by legislation.

"By 'free speech', I merely imply that which matches the legislation," he wrote in a tweet on Tuesday. "I'm towards censorship that goes far past the legislation."

The extra relaxed strategy that Musk is proposing has raised considerations that it might result in disinformation, hate speech and bullying operating rampant on the platform. Gadde has advocated for guaranteeing Twitter's insurance policies shield customers whereas preserving free speech.

"Freedom of expression means little as our underlying philosophy if we proceed to permit voices to be silenced as a result of they're afraid to talk up. We have to do a greater job combating abuse with out chilling or silencing speech," she wrote in an op-ed for The Washington Publish in 2015.

"I am typically impressed by the vigorous debates on controversial points that happen on Twitter, however I've additionally been significantly troubled by the plight of a few of our customers who're utterly overwhelmed by those that try to silence wholesome discourse within the title of free expression," she continued.

"At instances, this takes the type of hateful speech in tweets directed at ladies or minority teams; at others, it takes the type of threats aimed to intimidate those that take a stand on points."

Newsweek reached out to Vijaya Gadde, Twitter and Elon Musk for remark.