Video Duration 24 minutes 40 seconds
Twitter’s new owner, Elon Musk, has laid off nearly half of the company’s workforce.
For a man who loves to make headlines, spending $44 billion to buy one of the largest social media platforms in the world is one way to get there.
But the world’s richest man’s deal was difficult from the start.
Musk tried to back out, before signing last week, preventing a major court battle.
Not long after the ink dried on the deal, he then began laying off nearly half of Twitter’s workforce via email after they were locked out of the company’s IT systems.
Some of these include staff with human rights expertise and hate speech.
Twitter has been censoring content – specifically expelling former US President Donald Trump.
Several major advertisers now say they are holding back on their business until they see what happens next.
So what’s next for Twitter?
Presenters: Mohammed Jamojoom
Guest:
Marc Einstein – Digital Communications Specialist of ITR Corporation in Kyoto, Japan.
Cara Brennan Allamano – Human Resources Manager at Lattice, a people management software company in San Francisco.
Adrian Weckler – Technology Editor of the Ireland Independent newspaper in Dublin, Twitter Headquarters Europe.
