REPORT: Elon Musk Fires Entire Misinformation Team

The Verge reports:

Elon Musk has now purged roughly half of Twitter’s 7,500 employee base, leaving whole teams totally or near-completely gutted, including those tasked with defending against election misinformation ahead of the US midterms next week, The Verge has learned.

The areas of Twitter impacted the most by Musk’s cuts include its product trust and safety, policy, communications, tweet curation, ethical AI, data science, research, machine learning, social good, accessibility, and even certain core engineering teams.

Employees who remain at Twitter told The Verge that they expect the company to have a hard time maintaining critical infrastructure in the short term. “Shit is gonna start breaking,” said one current employee who requested anonymity.

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Elon Musk’s Twitter layoffs leave whole teams gutted https://t.co/gMemv3iZqW pic.twitter.com/tZKrNwaGu6

— The Verge (@verge) November 4, 2022

Looks like Elon Musk fired the entire curation team.

These were the folks who tackled misinfo, contextualized conversations via the ‘Explore’ page, and helped make Twitter an unmatched source for breaking news.

This will make Twitter noisier, more dangerous & less interesting

— Richie Assaly (@rdassaly) November 4, 2022