Elon Musk began firing hundreds of Twitter employees on Friday, four days before the midterm elections, including team members who police misinformation and malicious content.
Elon Musk began firing hundreds of Twitter employees on Friday, four days before the midterm elections, including key members of the teams that work on U.S. elections and content moderation on the high-profile social-media platform.on Friday, many using the hashtags #LoveWhereYouWork and #OneTeam, as employees let others know that they had been let go.
Friday’s layoffs, however, appear to be adding fuel to the anxieties of both users and advertisers that Twitter is gutting its ability to keep tabs on who and what shows up on its platform. And the across-the-board cuts come just as the company’s moderation systems are expected to be tested during the midterms.
earlier this week where he assured them he would not re-platform banned accounts for several weeks and he would restore access to tools for Twitter elections integrity staff that were previously frozen.had already seen a “massive drop” in ad revenue, and pugnaciously pushed back on the civic groups putting pressure on Twitter, saying they were “trying to destroy free speech in America.”
Many former employees were barred from accessing company logins for online Twitter accounts Thursday night without having been previously informed that their contracts had been terminated, according to one former employee who spoke to POLITICO on condition of anonymity. Othersto log into their Twitter email addresses even before the official layoffs had been announced.
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