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

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NEW: As part of his Twitter takeover, Elon Musk has laid off many employees who were charged with managing the midterm elections on the platform, sources told Forbes.

to receive a blue checkmark next to their name. According to documents viewed by the New York Times, the company has no current plans for a verification measure that would ensure that subscribers are who they say they are, a process crucial to preventing impersonation, especially for high-profile users. Users who are already verified won’t lose their checkmark for months, reports say.

While Twitter has a relatively small audience of approximately 250 million compared to Meta’s social media platforms, which boast over a billion users each, it has an outsized influence on politics and news.that Twitter has been the biggest driver of registrations through social media this election cycle.

Twitter’s new management made deep cuts across the entire company. Members of the company’s curation team, which was “There are really pernicious forces happening on the platform that have a real material effect and the harm associated with them can extend off the platform,” said Edward Perez, who formerly led the product team that included Twitter’s civic integrity operation. “I’m not convinced Elon Musk fully understands that.”

 

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Managing? Monitoring? Manipulating? Either way, go duck yourselves.

What's a social media platform doing managing online chatter regarding elections?

What on earth were they supposed to manage?

Good! They all suck! They all infringe on our American freedoms ✋

Since when is it a social media platform’s function to “manage” an election?

is just another Twitter account with a legacy name now. People don't buy your propaganda anymore.

Why is twitter 'managing the midterm elections'?

Uh…managing…the midterm elections? Quiet part out loud, folks.

That's a good thing. We don't need liberals in California managing our elections

Protecting who?

What exactly were they “managing” and where exactly in the Constitution are the empowered with such a task?

Why does a publisher need to “manage” an election? Forbes continues to work for the DNC.

Managing

Scuse me - but isn't the simple fact that Twitter employees were charged with 'managing the midterm elections on the platform,' a big red flag? That's the old Twitter, one that manufactured consent, manipulated, censored, aka 'managed' elections. That was part of the problem.

They shouldn’t be managing mid term elections anywhere and now they aren’t 😄

Using the phrase “managing the elections” yet still denying it’s election interference 🤣

That’s not their job.

Here , we have the head of the “Twitter Safety” during elections campaign . Potentially problematic I’d say ? elonmusk

That's the problem: our elections are not supposed to be 'managed' by liberal hacks at Twitter

How will the democrats manage to win?

Sorry the elections are safe and secure, this is misinformation and dangerous to our democracy

riggers mad

Elon is playing 4D chess. This guy hasn’t been wrong yet.

twitter.....managing midterm elections.... dystopian

Way to go Elonn

“Managing the midterm election” and “protecting the midterm election”😂😂 citizens have completely lost control of the public forum and elonmusk is exposing this for everyone to see

Maybe that is a good thing?

I'll manage my vote in the midterms without their help. And that's because we live in a Constitution Republic. Thank you elonmusk.

ploughmansfolly Good. Twitter should not be managing elections.

Twitter doesn't need to manage the election.

“ managing the midterm elections” 😂😂😂😂😂

What exactly were they managing? 🤔

I’m unfollowing you, I thought your post wouldn’t be biased…. I was wrong… time to correct the mistakes!

'managing the midterm elections...' Yep. Censoring opposing views and facts. Like suppressing the Hunter laptop story. It's called election interference. And you wonder why most folks don't trust the media.

Good. We don't need the govt telling the media what to say. Freedom of speech prevents the government from infringing on our constitutional rights.

What does “managing the midterm elections” mean, specifically? Censoring stories that are Russian disinformation — like Hunter Biden being compromised by Ukraine and China — because the secret police say so, perhaps?

LokiJulianus Why are they managing midterm elections?

Forbes headlines act like it is twit responsibility. It is not. It is the citizens and congress's job to protect.

LokiJulianus Media more upset with Twitter layoffs than the millions who permanently lost their jobs and businesses during the pandemic.

'Protecting' for whom

'Protecting' the midterms. From the voters, yeah.

You mean spreading propaganda

LokiJulianus It isn't corporations job to 'manage' the elections. Arrogant ****

Surprised you didn't say they were responsible for 'fortifying' the elections.

LokiJulianus Lol at “Protecting” the midterms. We the people don’t need anyone to tell us how to vote or what to believe.

ploughmansfolly “Sources” is the most prolific journalist out there these days. Someone should really give them a Pulitzer.

He’s truly morphed into a evil caricature!

Thank god. I’m not sure why we need Twitter employees “managing” our elections. What a disgrace they have been. Thank god for elonmusk

ItsMeKirbyLane

“Managing”…is there a more Orwellian term than that?

Says “sources” 😂😂 Journalism

Bravo!!!!👏🏽🙌🏽

Why did Twitter think they needed ANYONE protecting the election? And from whom were they protecting it from?

Great way to try and spin this lol. Also, how is the Forbes YouTube channel more conservative than the Twitter one? lol

How do you manage elections? By suppressing & censoring views contrary to those 'approved'by the censors?

Hummmm Maybe they all can learn to weld.....lol

Cry me a river, bitches...

Protecting Dems you mean

I’d be OK if Twitter burns to the ground completely. I would prefer that to a free for all haven for unverified news sources littered with bots and frauds.

Oh Heavens no!! 😱 Poor Princesses!! 🤦‍♂️

Fantastic! We don't need our elections to be 'managed.'

Hell yeah great

What do you think the political leanings of these people are? 90% Democrat? 95%?

Interesting word chosen - “protect” the elections

so the pelosi story has changed now

He’s gonna burn it to the ground…

that's a good businessman

yeah these fuckers shouldn't have been 'managing elections' and probably should get prosecuted for trying to.

Credibility of the source - “trust me bro”

My hero.

Great start Elon

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