Twitter: Musk defends deep cuts to company’s workforce
Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk says he had “no choice” but to slash the company’s workforce as the firm is losing more than $4m (£3.5m) a day.
Half of the company’s staff are being let go, a week after Mr Musk bought Twitter in a $44bn (£38.7bn) deal.
Twitter staff have been using the platform to talk about their dismissal.
There are concerns Twitter could water down content moderation but Mr Musk said the firm’s policies remain “absolutely unchanged”.
As reports emerged on Friday that thousands of staff at Twitter around the world were losing their jobs, questions were asked over the future of employees responsible for taking down harmful material.
Online safety groups and campaigners have suggested Mr Musk might relax moderation policies, making Twitter less effective at removing hate-speech and disinformation from the platform.
Permanent Twitter bans given to controversial figures – including former president Donald Trump – could also be removed. The changes come shortly before the US midterms when a spike in disinformation is expected.
These concerns were fuelled by Mr Musk’s comments on Friday, which sought to blame Twitter’s “massive drop in revenue” on “activist groups” who were “trying to destroy free speech in America”.
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