Elon Musk denies shutting down Twitter suicide prevention feature

Elon Musk officially denied a report that Twitter under his management had shut down a feature intended to prevent suicide by users of the platform.

“False, it is still there,” Musk said Saturday in response to a Reuters article this week which broke the story, citing anonymous sources.

Twitter head of trust and safety Ella Irwin said in an earlier statement that “we have been fixing and revamping our prompts. They were just temporarily removed while we do that,” and that “We expect to have them back up next week.”...