Elon Musk Begins Mass Layoffs At Twitter

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Half of the company's employees could see their jobs eliminated.

Ryan Grenoble

Nov 4, 2022

Mass layoffs have begun at Twitter, where reports suggest upward of 50% of the social media site’s jobs ― roughly 3,700 ― could be eliminated.

Employees received a message Thursday evening notifying them that layoffs were beginning, according to The New York Times. They were told not to come to the office on Friday.

Twitter employees began tweeting about their experiences as some said their access had already been cut off, probably as a precursor to being fired.

The drastic cuts coincide with other HR-focused directives, including plans to scrap the company’s work-from-anywhere policy, which affects some 1,500 employees. Those unwilling or unable to relocate to a physical office will likely contribute to the job loss totals.

There’s already been a lawsuit filed over the job cuts. In a suit seeking class-action status filed Thursday in San Francisco federal court, workers say Twitter is conducting the layoffs in violation of federal and California law by not giving enough notice, Bloomberg reported.

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Twitter temporarily closes offices as layoffs begin

Sheila Dang, Katie Paul and Martin Coulter

Nov. 4 2022

Nov 4 (Reuters) - Twitter Inc temporarily closed its offices and cut workers' access to internal systems on Friday after telling employees they would be informed by email about whether they were being laid off.

The move follows a week of chaos and uncertainty about the company's future under new owner Elon Musk.

The social media company said in an email to staff it would tell them by 9 a.m. Pacific time on Friday (12 p.m. EDT/1600 GMT) about staff cuts.

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Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) has recommended its brands to pause paid advertising on Twitter until further notice in the wake of Musk's takeover, it said on Friday. Its comments echoed similar remarks from other firms, including General Motors (GM.N) and General Mills (GIS.N).

Elon Musk

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Twitter has had a massive drop in revenue, due to activist groups pressuring advertisers, even though nothing has changed with content moderation and we did everything we could to appease the activists. Extremely messed up! They’re trying to destroy free speech in America.

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My personal favorite rely comes from DU

"7. Just another self-absorbed spoiled brat.

Musk obviously has never the old saying, 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it.' Not saying Twitter was an example of a sound business model but, it seemed to be doing well enough. Now, with his self-proclaimed brilliance he will single-handedly turn Twitter into Shitter in a matter of months if not weeks.

Just more proof that the world does not need billionaires."

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Down With Free Speech!

John Hinderaker

November 4, 2022

Elon Musk is said to be laying off half of Twitter’s 7,500 employees. This doesn’t come as a surprise: Twitter’s head count seems absurdly high, and expenses will need to be cut to have any hope of generating a profit commensurate with Musk’s purchase price.

But Elon says there is more to it than that. He says Twitter’s revenue has dropped dramatically because leftists have pressured companies not to advertise on the platform:

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The problem with this facially-neutral explanation is that Twitter has always been a cesspool. Advertisers apparently had no problem with tens of thousands of #RapeMelania tweets, or severed heads of Donald Trump, or active Twitter accounts run by terrorists, or, as Musk has complained, countless bot accounts, Russian and otherwise. But the old Twitter cesspool, being on the Left, was apparently not a threat to “brand safety.”

Musk has tried to appease advertisers by telling them nothing will change with regard to moderation, with the implicit exception that Twitter won’t continue to shut down conservatives. But that doesn’t seem to be good enough for advertisers like General Motors, L’Oreal, Volkswagen, Pfizer, Audi and General Mills, all of whom have publicly declared that they will no longer advertise on Twitter, even though nothing in particular has happened in the few days since Musk took over the company. And who knows how many other companies have quietly made the same move.

What to conclude? Hostility toward free speech, especially free speech that leans conservative or is not on board with social fads of the moment, is widespread. Sadly, it doesn’t take much pressure from far-left activists to induce major corporations to swear fealty to Leftism uber alles. In fact, I am not sure it takes any pressure at all.

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The Idea that Big Business  is Republican/Conservative MAY have been true at one time. That time is Long Past.

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Far-right figures appear to be testing Twitter's boundaries for anti-LGBTQ speech

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That would  depend on Works Out For Who?