Elon Musk to address Twitter staff after internal outcry

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Twitter plans to host Elon Musk for a question-and-answer session with employees after a week of internal outcries over his appointment to the social network’s board of directors, according to company messages obtained by The Post.

The announcement from Twitter chief executive Parag Agrawal of the highly unusual internal AMA — which stands for “ask me anything” — session was an effort to assuage anxious workers, who in recent days have expressed worries that the firebrand Musk could inflict damage to the company’s culture, as well as make it harder for people to do their jobs.

“Looking forward to working with Parag & Twitter board to make significant improvements to Twitter in coming months,” Musk tweeted Tuesday, in a reply to a public welcome from Agrawal. Twitter, which is based in liberal San Francisco and has over 5,000 employees who can work remotely from anywhere, is known for an extremely liberal and vocal corporate culture. Recently departed CEO Jack Dorsey is a prominent supporter of Black Lives Matter. Twitter was the first company to take action against President Donald Trump for his tweets supporting Capitol rioters on Jan. 6, as well as the first company to allow employees to permanently work from home.

Another post said that employees were struggling with welcoming a leader whose values seemed to be in contradiction with the company’s.

 

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Some Twitter employees fear change. Normal feelings. The change they fear is what is concerning. Someone that is creative and wants an edit button and also more freedom of speech should not cause fear to anyone that is not a leftist snowflake that only wants left biased info.

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Oh look…another billionaire wants to explain that he’s just a good guy.

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Lol “internal outcries” Leftist tears taste so good ✨

Sup, What about the Wonkey Donkey NFT project ? Just need to know what your followers thing about them before i get some.. Thanks

deray Musk just love pissing SEC off 🤣🤣🤣🤣. Maybe SEC can get off their ass and do something about these corrupt markets instead of going after easy cases, BRAVO Elon

Let him do some monitoring, see the horrific insane ptsd-inducing posts moderators have to deal with.

Many lefties were saying Twitter is private company they have their T&C follow or quit... Elon came... Now same people are saying Twitter is public trading company... 😂😂

deray Oh wow

Elon needs to clean house.

Why do this? They can quit and work elsewhere.

Lol what a picture to use for this headline

Hello, Nice project, I heard they did a partnership with digitalfever_io team? Just need to know others opinion about them before i hire them. Thanks

If I was Elon I wouldn't even go to any session. screw them

Money talks.

I would ask him about the toxic culture at Tesla. I did internal investigations there and found an environment were senior executives, & managers at all levels were making unethical & illegal decisions to appease Musk. Even when some senior managers were caught, they got promoted

Do it on Teams and invite us all, jack!

ignoring

Free speech for all sides.

Thread.

Face it - money can buy anything. It's the American dream.

So he can shitpost to the staff?

Jump thru the hoops

Good 👍 Good 👍 Good for you elonmusk You show them. The world 🌎 has gone totally 💯 BONKERS

just fire them, employees are free to work for other companies if they don't like the shareholders

Poor baby twitter employees

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Ew..

First UFC 273 and now this! Should be a fun April for must-see PPV events. 📺

Let’s do this live on twitter

To sell his cars ?

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