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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Yes. Happens all the time when a company is bought out. This one is getting so much press because libs counted on Twitter for propaganda, but like you said they are nothing special.
including those tasked with defending against election misinformation ahead of the US midterms next week,
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They make it sound like it is a bad thing.
Wonder how the commie freaks like to be “censored” now? Embrace your squalor. Learn to flip burgers.
Disemboweled, like a big cat does to its prey.
They all think that they are going to get rich in the lawsuit against that horrible man (heh heh). What they don’t realize is that he will be able to save himself severance for firing them for cause when they have to give up their secrets in ‘discovery’...
Boo hoo. Twitter was introduced as social media, not as a watchdog for election misinformation, or suppressing Republican thought and promoting democrat propaganda. It is not essential to the functioning of the republic.
+1000!
One place I worked they fired everyone who was making too much money for their job, because some production line workers were 15-20 year people and had gotten yearly COLAS and an entry level worker would bet minimum wage for the same job................
sounds like he got it right, most of those departments have no need to exist and were doing a piss poor job. Time to flush!
“Twitter is not available in China.”
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Well, then, they won’t need a censorship team for them, will they?
/s
whole teams totally or near completely gutted, including those tasked with defending against election misinformation...
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This is not their purpose. They’re a stupid social media platform.
“These people are not special”
The trouble is that their mommies have told them for years that they ARE special.
“Shit is gonna start breaking,” said one current employee...”
Sabotage is coming on a big scale.
[including those tasked with defending against election misinformation ahead of the US midterms next week
What? How is Twitter in charge of U.S. elections?]
Liberals are deeply saddened that their Leftist operatives will not be in control of as much Leftist propaganda and hindering the truth. Elon Musk has broken one of their propaganda tool shell games.
While there might very well be some booby logic bombs, placed by people who weren’t busy otherwise and needed firing, I expect Musk already played that hand by cutting their access passes before identifying the firees. And, oh, btw, the firees need to mind their manners since there just might be some new help in the DOJ soon?
As an earlier post: Kar-friggin’-ma mofos! Door/ass. C ya! Maybe the need to learn to “coal”. Can ya dig it?! 😎👍
This is what Trump needs to do to the federal government when he’s re-elected in 2024.
Day One Blitzkrieg, top down. Hit them before they can organize. F playing by their rules.
How does he know who he’s laying off when they never show up to work ? LOL
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