Twitter employees on Friday braced for widespread layoffs as part of new owner Elon Musk's broad overhaul of the social platform. In a letter to employees obtained by multiple media outlets, the company said that workers would find out by 9 a.m. Pacific Standard Time if they had been laid...
Over 13,500 creatives signed the 26-word letter. 10/23/2024 By Elena Cavender Why Elon Musk is the real winner of the 2024 US Presidential election Musk's most trusted employees (and lackeys) will likely assume governmental positions for Musk. 11/13/2024 By Matt Binder Elon Musk's...
With Elon Musk’s deal to acquire Twitter for $44 billion expected to go through by the end of this week, employees at the social media company have described the billionaire’s reported planto cut the workforce by 75%as “reckless.” A draft of an open letter seen byTimehighlights a my...
On Monday, the head of the European Parliament, speaker Roberta Metsola, sent a letter to Musk inviting him to testify before the legislature, her spokesman said. The parliament has no power to compel Musk to turn up, and his response was not immediately known. © 2022 AFP...
The hashtag #RIPTwitter gained huge traction on the site after resignations poured in from employees who chose "no" to Musk's demand that they either be "extremely hardcore" or exit the company. Twitter has plunged into turmoil as Musk, a self-professed free speech absolutist, seeks to shak...
In anewBloombergreport, an anonymous source said that Elon Musk told Twitter employees that he is not planning to cut 75% of the staff when he takes over. He is expected to reduce the staff as part of the takeover, but documents revealed that Twitter’s current management was planning to...
Elon Musk completed a deal to buy Twitter at 44 billion U.S. dollars in October, gaining control of the social network company. According to media reports, on Friday Twitter laid off thousands of employees in departments across the company as part of an aggressive plan to trim costs.■...
Musk on Wednesday sent out a Google form and asked employees to respond "Yes" by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Thursday if they wanted to stay at the company. Hundreds decided not to, and have said their goodbyes in Slack and on Twitter. Departing employees will r...
Musk alleged that Twitter is "actively resisting and thwarting his information rights" as outlined by the deal, CNN reported, citing the letter he sent to Twitter's head of legal, policy and trust, Vijaya Gadde. Musk demanded that Twitter turn over information about its testing methodologies ...
have been undertaken by the company in order to curbhate speechandmisinformation, the problem was this: the rules around what to censor and what not to censor were drawn up by a bunch of Twitter employees. Effectively, a small group of techies got to decide what users saw and thus thought...