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Twitter’s new proprietor, Elon Musk, has fired almost half of the corporate’s workforce.
For a person who likes to make headlines, spending $44bn to purchase one of many largest social media platforms on this planet is one technique to obtain that.
However the deal by the world’s richest man has been troubled from the beginning.
Musk tried to again out, earlier than signing final week, averting a serious court docket battle.
No sooner had the ink dried on the deal, he then set about firing almost half of Twitter’s workforce by e-mail after they had been locked out of the corporate’s IT methods.
A few of these gone embrace employees with human rights and hate speech experience.
Twitter had been moderating content material – notably expelling former US President Donald Trump.
Some main advertisers now say they’re withholding their enterprise till they see what occurs subsequent.
So what’s subsequent for Twitter?
Presenter: Mohammed Jamojoom
Visitors:
Marc Einstein – Digital Media Specialist with the ITR Company in Kyoto, Japan.
Cara Brennan Allamano – Chief Individuals Officer at Lattice, a individuals administration software program firm in San Francisco.
Adrian Weckler – Know-how Editor of the Irish Unbiased newspaper in Dublin, European HQ of Twitter.