Biden added: “What worries us all now is that Elon Musk is buying a tool that sends lies around the world. How do we expect children to be able to perceive the risks?”
‘Twitter massacre’
The new owner of “Twitter” commented on the campaign of dismissals that he conducted after his acquisition of the company, and it sparked great controversy during the past few hours.
On Friday, Twitter began a major layoffs campaign, informing each employee individually via e-mail whether he would stay or leave, and prevented employees from entering offices and the site’s internal systems overnight.
The move comes after a week of chaos and uncertainty over the company’s future under Musk, the world’s richest person, who confirmed that the platform was experiencing a “massive drop in revenue” as advertisers withdraw their funding.
In his latest tweet on Twitter, the American businessman justified the decision to lay off employees, revealing the benefits they received, saying:
In terms of reducing Twitter’s power, unfortunately there is no choice when the company loses more than $4 million a day.
Every person who was discharged from service was granted 3 months compensation, which is 50 percent more than the amount required by law.
- The company has been silent about the scale of the layoffs, although internal plans seen by Reuters this week indicate that Musk is looking to lay off about 3,700 Twitter employees, about half of the company’s workforce, as he seeks to cut costs and impose new business rules.
- “In an effort to put Twitter on the right track, we will go through a difficult process of reducing our workforce globally, Friday,” said a Thursday message seen by Reuters.
- Musk has already fired senior employees of the company, such as its chief executive and senior financial and legal executives, and others, including directors of advertising, marketing and human resources, have left the company over the past week.
- Employees who worked in the areas of engineering, communications, product management, content management and machine learning ethics were among those affected by the layoffs, according to tweets from employees on Twitter.
- Some employees wrote in tweets that they had been denied access to the company’s electronic system, and expressed concern about whether this indicated that they were being laid off.
- Twitter employees filed a class-action lawsuit against the company Thursday, saying it was conducting mass layoffs without giving them the required 60 days notice, in violation of federal and California law.
- The lawsuit asked the San Francisco federal court to issue an injunction preventing Twitter from requiring laid-off employees to sign documents without informing them of their legal status.
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