Elon Musk Has Laid Off Many Twitter Employees Charged With Protecting The Midterm Elections

forbes.com ^ | 11/4/22 | Katharine Schwab, Alexandra S. Levine

[cotton1706]

Teams of employees at Twitter who were responsible for monitoring the upcoming midterm elections on the platform have been decimated as part of mass layoffs implemented today by new owner Elon Musk. Those that remain say they do not have access to critical tools used for certain content moderation decisions, sources in a position to know told Forbes.

As part of his takeover of Twitter, Musk dramatically slashed the company’s workforce on Friday, just days before the 2022 midterm elections. Employees were told Thursday night that they would receive notice the next morning stating whether they were still employed. Multiple now-former employees told Forbes that they were locked out of their computers and work-related accounts before receiving an official email from the company. This morning Twitter exploded with reports from staffers who’d been sacked as part of Musk’s takeover.

[cotton1706]

OH MY, WHAT WILL WE DO WITHOUT SUCH PEOPLE???

We've been electing people since about 1630. We'll all be fine. And probably better off without their insidious interference.

[OttawaFreeper]

Agreed, INGSOC media now has those fewer friends to monitor the election.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Sounds like the government has illegally colluded with private corporations to silence their political opponents.

[throwthebumsout]

Elon Musk Has Laid Off Many Twitter Employees Charged With ProtectingManipulating The Midterm Elections

[toddausauras]

Great! Bunch of leftist Karens no doubt. But bye.

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

Headline written as if they were the guardians or something.

[freeandfreezing]

Is it possible that a more accurate headline would be:

Elon Musk Has Laid Off Many Twitter Employees Charged With Protecting Influencing The Midterm Elections

[Williams]

Protect the election? Sounds scary to me.

[RummyChick]

i suspect if they were still there twitter would be deleting the new story about Pelosi and the door. NBC has now taken it down...but still remains on twitter and daily mail

[gov_bean_ counter]

Protecting them for Democrats. Yeah, I can see that.

[odawg]

Charged with protecting the election? Credentialed by what elected body?

[1Old Pro]

Those that remain say they do not have access to critical tools used for certain content moderation decisions,

GOOD

[SunkenCiv]

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[Col Frank Slade]

My god the meditation rooms at Twitter will be overflowing with heartbroken snowflakes.

[Rurudyne]

“Protecting” or helping Democrats steal?

[Yo-Yo]

“Charged with protecting the midterm elections?” More like charged with suppressing any narrative that helps Republicans or hurt Democrats.

[silent majority rising]

Forbes is corrupt media that serves the Deep State.

[Qwapisking]

It isn’t twitter’s OR any other media’s job to monitor elections. The only job social media should be doing is providing a platform for folks on ANY side of the aisle to share their ideas with one another. And if someone doesn’t like someone else’s ideas, then they don’t have to listen or read it. Pretty simple even for the simple minded.

[Antoninus]

Uh, protecting them from what, exactly?

[Regulator]

“Charged” with protecting the elections??!

What, were they all deputized, cleared and sworn in?

Apparently a new police force we were all unaware of: Jack Dorsey’s personal army.

So they blurt out the truth accidentally.