Vijaya Gadde

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Vijaya Gadde is an American attorney of Indian origin who worked at Twitter as the general counsel and the head of legal, public policy, and trust & safety lead from August 2013 to October 2022. On 27 October 2022, Elon Musk (soon after Musk took over the ownership of Twitter) fired her from her position at Twitter for misleading Musk and other investors about real figures on bots and fake accounts on Twitter.Vijaya was born in Hyderabad, Telangana, India, and when she was three years old, her family shifted to Beaumont, Texas, where her father had earlier moved to pursue his graduation. Vijaya Gadde’s childhood picture.After a few months, her family moved to the east coast and got settled in New Jersey, where Vijaya received her school education.Gadde began her career as an associate at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, an American law firm headquartered in Palo Alto, California, in October 2000. As a part of WSGR, Vijaya Gadde worked on the 2006 acquisition of McClatchy Co.-Knight Ridder Inc., which was worth $4.1 billion. Gadde also served as the attorney to the New York Stock Exchange’s Proxy Working Group and Committee on Corporate Governance. She resigned from her position at the firm after working there for almost a decade.She has also briefly worked at Juniper Networks, a network hardware company in California, as a senior director and associate general counsel (corporate).She joined Twitter in San Francisco, California, in July 2011 as director and legal head. At Twitter, she initially worked on matters including general corporate, securities, M&A, and international.Two years later, she was promoted to the position of general counsel and the head of legal, public policy, and trust & safety lead in the company. Vijaya Gadde discussing Twitter’s moderation policies at the Joe Rogan Experience.As the legal and policy head, Vijaya dealt with tweets involving harassment, harmful speech, and fake news. She played a crucial role in blocking false propaganda and the accounts of people involved in such matters. Vijaya also took several high-profile decisions on Twitter.Although she operated in the background, mounding policies, her influence helped shape Twitter a lot during her tenure as the legal and policy head. Vijaya Gadde explaining the policies of Twitter at an event.In 2021, Gadde was instrumental in permanently putting a ban on the Twitter account of former US President Donald Trump.