Austin Kocher, PhD 🌎Casey Newton (tech guy) reports this evening that: “a large number of number of #Twitter contractors were just laid off this afternoon with no notice, both in the US and abroad. Functions affected appear to include content moderation, real estate, and marketing, among others. Contractors aren’t being notified at all, they’re just losing access to Slack and email. Managers figured it out when their workers just disappeared from the system.” Yikes. 😳
Phil Rees@austinkocher I'm beginning to wonder whether there's something clinical going on with him. He's doing this knowing the amount of scrutiny he's already under. If he were in his right mind he'd surely realize the damage this will do to motivation and staff retention at his other businesses.
Doug Lawlor@phrees @austinkocher After all of the things I've been reading, I seriously wonder does he really want to destroy the company? The second question is: Why would he want to do this? I can understand a new owner wanting to restructure a business but my God! It really seems to me that he really wants to drive the whole company out of business.
@douglawlor @austinkocher I think part of it is his obsession with journalism. Remember him floating the idea of a "Pravda" rating system back in 2018. I think that's what he wants to build now, and if he can't build that he'll destroy the connection between sources, journalists and readers instead.
@phrees @austinkocher It is just so strange. There must be some reason why he is doing what he is doing. I just saw something saying if you use 2FA to sign in to your account it has now been shut down. I haven't tested this so don't know for sure.
@douglawlor @austinkocher He is the living embodiment of "move fast and break things." Hopefully that doesn't also apply to his cars.
@phrees @austinkocher I heard of quality control issues with the cars as well. Not sure if they are getting better.
@douglawlor @austinkocher Hearing about that on Harry Shearer's Le Show now. Huge recalls. 04:44 in this episode
