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.
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
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Given the sweeping nature of Musk’s layoffs and his mandate to cut costs in areas like cloud hosting, employees who remain at Twitter told The Verge that they expect the company to have a hard time maintaining critical infrastructure in the short term. “Shit is gonna start breaking,” said one current employee who requested anonymity to speak without the company’s permission, while another called management’s layoff process “an absolute shit show.”
like these companies have national subsidiaries which generally are pretty easy to reach and call to a court, also brazilian judges can ban a site for not following the brazilians laws they have to follow so they work in here (whatsapp has already been banned and un-banned multiples times on the country for some really weird reasons), and we are a pretty big market, we are all online freaks so i don't know musk would probably lose more money fighting this then just paying them what they are owned,
Sounds as if he will fight this, then. Guy seems to love shooting himself in the foot recently.