“Shit is gonna start breaking,” said one current employee.
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 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...
Meanwhile, employees in other countries have been notified that their roles have been “identified as potentially impacted or at risk of redundancy,” and that they should continue to abide by company policies until more information is shared.
“Throughout the last week, Elon has spent time with a number of employees, customers, partners, policymakers and Twitter users,” the unsigned email to remaining employees reads, according to a copy you can read in full at the bottom of this story. “He is looking forward to communicating with everyone about his vision for the company soon.”, he agreed to pay terminated employees with severance that would at least match what Twitter offered prior to the deal closing.
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