Twitter layoffs: anger and confusion as multiple teams reportedly decimated - as it happened

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Thousands have lost their jobs, including the human rights team, according to reports from the media and former employees

But the New York Times, citing laid off employees, earlier todaythat terminated workers were “given few details about severance and were told they would receive more information in a week”, adding, “They said they gleaned that any severance would probably be less than what Twitter’s previous management would have paid.”

has, however, also experienced a massive revenue drop due to advertisers’ pulling back in the wake of the chaos of Musk’s layoffs and tweets of potential policy changes in recent days.surrounding its handling of layoffs. Former employees allege they were not given proper notice under US federal law; workers found out they were fired when they were locked out of their accounts on Thursday.

In another late Friday tweet, Musk also claimed that “Twitter’s strong commitment to content moderation remains absolutely unchanged”. He further claimed that “we have actually seen hateful speech at times this week decline *below* our prior norms”, but Musk did not elaborate or provide specific evidence of that. Twitter was23.

With early voting underway in the US, our efforts on election integrity — including harmful misinformation that can suppress the vote and combatting state-backed information operations — remain a top priority.

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