Posted on 11/04/2022 12:39:26 PM PDT by libh8er
Elon Musk has now purged roughly half of Twitter’s 7,500 employee base, leaving whole teams totally or near completely gutted, including those tasked with defending against election misinformation ahead of the US midterms next week, The Verge has learned.
The areas of Twitter impacted the most by Musk’s cuts include its product trust and safety, policy, communications, tweet curation, ethical AI, data science, research, machine learning, social good, accessibility, and even certain core engineering teams, according to tweets by laid-off employees and people familiar with the matter. More company leaders, including Arnaud Weber, VP of consumer product engineering, and Tony Haile, a senior director of product overseeing Twitter’s work with news publishers, have also been laid off following Musk’s firings of Twitter’s senior leadership last week.
Given the sweeping nature of Musk’s layoffs and his mandate to cut costs in areas like cloud hosting, employees who remain at Twitter told The Verge that they expect the company to have a hard time maintaining critical infrastructure in the short term. “Shit is gonna start breaking,” said one current employee who requested anonymity to speak without the company’s permission, while another called management’s layoff process “an absolute shit show.”
Musk’s cuts began Thursday evening, shortly after an unsigned memo was sent internally confirming the company would “go through the difficult process of reducing our global workforce.” Impacted employees quickly realized they were locked out of their work accounts well before they were notified of their job status by another unsigned email titled “Your Role at Twitter.”
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“wiped, like with a cloth?”
How many back doors were created before today? Everyone knew this was going to happen.
Amazing...elections for centuries without these twits. I’m sure we will survive without them again.
Wow!
I guarantee there are dozens and dozens of malicious Logic Bombs imbedded in the Twitterers that will explode when their fired owners command.
Musk knows this - no doubt he has a whole army of anti-hackers on standby to fix things.
"Liberal twitter employees soon to learn their pronouns are was/were" #TwitterLayoffs
Yep
Sad, they are
Now they get to enjoy Funemployment!
My dream headline after the next Republican is elected President.
You know you’re supposed to include a cover sheet, right?
Did ... you ... get a copy of the memo?
I’ll get you a copy of the memo.
I can't post this enough with Twitter news these days.
What? How is Twitter in charge of U.S. elections?
Same here. It’s pretty common to see at least the C-level leadership cleaned out. Then thinning of the heard if it’s thought staffing has redundancy overlap or just bloated.
Remember when Musk tried to help the kids trapped in the Indonesian cave? It was these twits who threw all kinds of cheap krap at him for trying. I expect he can hold a grudge and got the cheapshotters.
Here's what Musk is gutting:
…employee base, leaving whole teams totally or near completely gutted, including those tasked with defending against election misinformation ahead of the US midterms next week, The Verge has
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How wonderful.
It’s a festivus miracle.
Actual leftist fascist totalitarians being thrown out.
And crying.
Given their history of subversive treachery, I find this news particularly pleasing!
Excellent news!
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