Exclusive: Layoffs at Twitter affected teams responsible for keeping the platform free of misinformation, potentially hobbling the company's capabilities 4 days before the end of voting in the midterm elections, current and former employees tell NBCNews.
An email to Twitter’s public relations team was not immediately returned Friday. Some members of the team tweeted that they had been laid off.:"While we said goodbye to incredibly talented friends and colleagues yesterday, our core moderation capabilities remain in place."
“Unfortunately, the platform’s history of transparency and supporting research may be just that: history,” said Kate Starbird, a professor of design and engineering at the University of Washington who studies misinformation. The roughly 100-person team tasked with Twitter Blue, the site’s subscription service, was also slashed, according to one former employee. Most of the team’s engineers and product managers were fired on Friday and replaced with a “rag tag team” from other parts of the company, that would build the service into a vehicle for verification, the employee said.
“Twitter isn’t prepared for that scale,” said one Twitter employee who survived Friday’s layoffs and asked to remain anonymous because they were not authorized to speak publicly about internal company projects. One Twitter employee who was laid off on Friday said the plan might not launch on time because only a “skeleton crew” of engineers is left at the company and so it might not be technically possible. The Twitter employee said that, as of the layoffs, the plan was that “there’s not going to be any verification of ID” to acquire a verification badge.
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