Musk needs to put off three-quarters of Twitter staff

Elon Musk has deliberate to put off almost 75% of Twitter’s 7,500 staff if he succeeds in shopping for the social community, the Washington Submit mentioned on Thursday. The Tesla boss has advised potential buyers that he intends to cut back the corporate to round 2,000 staff.

The multi-billionaire is a priori on the verge of shopping for the social community for 44 billion {dollars}, after months of financial and authorized developments.

However even when Elon Musk fails to amass Twitter, the platform plans to put off almost 1 / 4 of the employees anyway by the top of 2023, Washington Submit sources say. Twitter didn’t react instantly to a request from AFP.

The whimsical chief had made an acquisition supply accepted by the group’s board of administrators on the finish of April, saying that his precedence was not profitability however the protection of freedom of expression.

Much less strict moderation

He then sought to unilaterally withdraw from the deal, accusing the corporate of mendacity to him about its battle in opposition to automated accounts and spam. Twitter filed a grievance in early July and Elon Musk lastly assured earlier this month that the transaction was actually going to happen.

The decide adjourned the trial, which ought to have taken place this week, and given the 2 events till October 28 to achieve a brand new settlement.

In mid-June, throughout a query and reply session with staff of the San Francisco firm, the businessman had pressured that he aimed to achieve one billion customers – as a substitute of the 230 million present – and to diversify sources of revenue.

He additionally recalled the significance in his eyes of a much less strict moderation of content material, throughout the limits outlined by regulation. Its design clashes with that of many Twitter staff, associations and elected Democrats, who quite the opposite ask social networks to raised battle in opposition to hate speech, harassment and misinformation.

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