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 Verge has learned.cue feigned shock memes
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 tweets by laid-off employees and people familiar with the matter.
By SP Go To PostWasn’t that the whole point?
He was supposed to do different moderation not break it
By JesalR Go To PostCurious, who could have seen this coming.How many iterations of he's the stupidest person in the world can I post
I believe they got severance which gets around the 60 day. I know someone who works there and they said people got paid through to January 4th
By Lunatic Go To PostI believe they got severance which gets around the 60 day. I know someone who works there and they said people got paid through to January 4thYes, but the lack of notice means that have to pay an additional fine per employee per day they shorted the notification.
By Laboured Go To PostSeems like he's having a nice time with his new toy.
Maybe he fired the engineers working on it before they could finish. Maybe had they written more if statements they would've made it.
By Daz Go To PostIncredible thread.I'm sorry you were
it has come to my attention that the more lines of code you write, is not in fact a good thing. Mind coming back and acting like this never happened?
By Laboured Go To PostSeems like they didn’t write enough lines of code.
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They should come back and just write as many garbage lines of code as they can until someone actually reads them. Could be a sweet gig for a few months
By FortuneFaded Go To PostJESUS CHRIST
By Daz Go To PostImagine the good you could do with $44 BSomething something billionaires shouldn't exist something something
this
THIS
is what you decide to do?
Also
Hold up
Suspending accounts over fake names? What happened to free speech? Oh right
EDIT: put more succinctly
Hold up
Suspending accounts over fake names? What happened to free speech? Oh right
EDIT: put more succinctly
By Laboured Go To PostI hadn't appreciated quite how funny this would all be. Kudos.
By Daz Go To Post
This is incredible.