Advertisers fleeing, workers in fear: Welcome to Elon Musk's Twitter

[iemanja]

Last edited Fri Nov 4, 2022, 06:33 PM - Edit history (1)

SAN FRANCISCO — One week after Elon Musk acquired Twitter, the company was in turmoil on Friday, as an estimated half of its workers were handed pink slips and advertisers were fleeing amid calls from civil rights groups to boycott a social media “platform that fuels hate speech, election denialism and conspiracy theories.”

As racist and anti-semitic trolls continued to test the boundaries of Musk’s Twitter online, concern was growing that the mass layoffs could hobble the site’s ability to police misinformation ahead of next week’s midterm elections — as well as around other elections abroad.

Meanwhile, some workers who kept their jobs complained about the Musk’s changes and threatened to leave.

Musk acknowledged the chaos on Friday, tweeting that Twitter had experienced a massive drop in revenue because of activist pressure on advertisers. He repeated his claim that the site had made no changes in how it polices rule-breaking content.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/04/twitter-layoffs-musk/

No firewall version: https://archive.ph/SkPME
I love that he's losing revenue.

[thomski64]

1. Elon twitlrer's investment aflame..

...like a Fort Meyers Tesla, may he lose
billions, along with his bone saw partners..

[GoCubsGo]

2. And, all completely predictable. nt

[louslobbs]

3. Yeah, no changes

Just people rushing to use the N word cause they feel a kinship with the new owner.

[iemanja]

12. Because he fired most of the moderators

So there are few people to take that stuff down. Plus he fired most of the security people, so users' information is in jeopardy.

[RustyWheels]

4. Deleted my account this AM

Deleted my account this AM in protest.

[2naSalit]

5. A meme I'd love to see...

One showing the chief twit as

[iemanja]

14. You should make one

There are sites that let you make them for free.

[dalton99a]

6. Kick

https://archive.ph/SkPME

[iemanja]

7. Thanks

I put the link in the OP. I don't know how to do that.

[Gore1FL]

9. It's easy and I'll teach you how!

Go to Archive.Today and put the link to the article in the top field and click save!


It will either come back immediately (because someone already did this) or it will put your request in a queue and show it to you when it's finished!

nb: Some special features (if the exist) in some of the articles won't work, but I've never found that to be a huge sacrifice.

[iemanja]

11. Thank you!

[Gore1FL]

8. At least some portion of the $44,000,000,000 he spent went back into the economy.

So there is that.

[durablend]

10. Tots and pears

[BlackSkimmer]

13. Amazing how many care about twitter.

Bizarre.