Elon Musk has been tormenting leftists for months ever since he made an offer last spring to purchase Twitter. No one has been more outraged than the leftist Twitter employees, who have enjoyed censoring, fact-checking, shadowbanning, and outright removing accounts from their platform in the zealous pursuit of eliminating dissent.
Now, the chickens are home to roost. After years of unfettered behavior, their soon-to-be new boss is promising to shake things up. In addition to reinstalling accounts and cleaning up the bot mess, Musk is also vowing to fire three-quarters of Twitter’s some 7,500 employees.
The Daily Mail wrote as much as it reported on a recent Washington Post story. Immediately, the angle was that fewer staff would make it difficult to monitor “misinformation.” Readers can draw their own conclusions as to what they really mean.
Corporate documents obtained by the Washington Post reveal that the billionaire told prospective investors in his $44 billion deal to buy the social media giant that he plans to get rid of three-quarters of its 7,500 workers.
That would leave the company with just a skeleton crew of just over 2,000 employees, which experts say would make it difficult for the social media company to tamp down on what it deems to be ‘misinformation.’
Musk’s bold proclamation predictably left thousands of people who go to work more to practice their religion than to create a truly booming company in fits of fear and frustration.
Daily Mail continued:
Now, a number of employees are expressing their fears they may be one of the more than 5,000 workers laid off from the company when Musk, 51, takes over.
Gene Ross, a staff designer for the social media giant, took to the site Thursday night to ask if anyone is ‘looking for a below average generalist,’ while Patrick Czapla, a product manager, asked if they will ‘all go off and start New Twitter together.’
Parker Lyons, a senior financial analyst at Twitter, also tweeted a series of memes upon hearing the news, including a tweet reading, ‘When you realize you are the 75%’ with a clip of Magic Johnson shaking his head and saying ‘I’m not gonna be here.’
More drama rolled in too:
Matt Walker, a product designer for Twitter, meanwhile, went of on Musk and former CEO Jack Dorsey in a series of tweets Thursday night, writing: ‘Every decision Jack has made has gotten us to this point.’
He also tweeted that the common thread between the news of MailChimp’s CEO writing in an email that pronouns do ‘more harm than good’ and Musk’s planned layoffs is ‘billionaires are a**holes.’
And in his final tweet, Walker wrote that he was ‘doom scrolling on the very source of the doom.’
For all the crying taking place, from a financial standpoint Musk is hardly off base. Records indicate that Twitter spent over $1.5 billion on its roughly 7,500-8,000 employees. Quick math would show that the average salary is just under $200,000. Whatever these people accomplish, that’s a lot of money to squash free speech.
Previous management had also looked at shuttering several data management centers, which handle and process data for Twitter’s 200 million daily users.
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