Twitter CEO Elon Musk plans to begin making employees for lunch after slashing his newly acquired companyâs workforce by half, and leftists are not happy with it.
âRegarding Twitterâs reduction in force, unfortunately there is no choice when the company is losing over $4M/day. Everyone exited was offered 3 months of severance, which is 50% more than legally required,â Musk tweeted of the layoffs.
He fired 3/4 of the employees. Now heâs planning to starve the rest of them. Heâs failure incarnate. pic.twitter.com/elL8N3D2CB
â Andrew Wortman (@AmoneyResists) November 12, 2022
Several employees, mostly liberals, expressed their disappointment over the self-proclaimed âChief Twitââs decision to fire them.
âThis will impact our ability to provide support for elections, definitely,â an anonymous Twitter employee told The Associated Press. âI follow his tweets and they affect how we prioritize our work. Itâs a very healthy indicator of what to prioritize.â
Eddie Perez, a Twitter civic integrity team manager who quit in September, argued that the company-wide exodus could allow disinformation to âspread like wildfire.â
said he fears the layoffs so close to the midterms could allow disinformation to âspread like wildfireâ during the post-election vote-counting period in particular.
âI have a hard time believing that it doesnât have a material impact on their ability to manage the amount of disinformation out there,â Perez said.
In a tweet on Friday, Musk blamed activists for Twitterâs âmassive drop in revenueâ since he took over the company last month.
âTwitter 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,â he wrote. âExtremely messed up! Theyâre trying to destroy free speech in America.â
Musk closed the deal for $44 billion and began to reshape the platform that heâs long-criticized over allegations of not being politically neutral by firing several executives. Those fired include chief executive Parag Agrawal and chief financial officer Ned Segal, among others.
“The reason I acquired Twitter is because it is important to the future of civilization to have a common digital town square, where a wide range of beliefs can be debated in a healthy manner,” he tweeted after the completion of the deal.
The billionaire previously tried to buy Twitter in April before canceling in July, saying that he was misled by the company over the number of fake âbotâ accounts.