{"id":1456502,"date":"2022-04-28T09:44:36","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T13:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1456502"},"modified":"2022-04-28T09:44:37","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T13:44:37","slug":"ahole-twitter-employees-melt-down-quit-over-musk-takeover-new-internal-messages-reveal-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ahole-twitter-employees-melt-down-quit-over-musk-takeover-new-internal-messages-reveal-report\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A**hole\u2019: Twitter Employees Melt Down, Quit Over Musk Takeover, New Internal Messages Reveal: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fahole-twitter-employees-melt-down-quit-over-musk-takeover-new-internal-messages-reveal-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1456502&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/04\/MuskE-scaled.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Twitter employees freaked out and one even apparently vowed to quit over the company\u2019s takeover by tech billionaire Elon Musk this week, according to internal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/428046\/what-is-slack-and-why-do-people-love-it\/\">Slack<\/a> messages obtained by The New York Post.<\/p>\n<p>The messages show woke workers inside the San Francisco-based social media company panicked and despondent over the prospect of Musk allowing what he considers free speech to take place on the platform,<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">\u201cVocal Twitter employees on internal chats indicate their biggest fear is Donald Trump being unbanned. Many express strong hatred toward [Elon Musk]\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">&#038; say they\u2019re sick of hearing about \u2018free speech,&#8217;\u201d\u00a0Andy Ngo said Monday, citing sources. \u201cThey\u2019re concerned about their mental health. <\/span><span class=\"r-18u37iz\"><a class=\"css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ElonMuskBuyTwitter?src=hashtag_click\">#ElonMuskBuyTwitter<\/a>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">From my sources: Vocal Twitter employees on internal chats indicate their biggest fear is Donald Trump being unbanned. Many express strong hatred toward <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@elonmusk<\/a> &#038; say they\u2019re sick of hearing about \u201cfree speech.\u201d They\u2019re concerned about their mental health. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ElonMuskBuyTwitter?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ElonMuskBuyTwitter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andy Ng\u00f4 \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08 (@MrAndyNgo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrAndyNgo\/status\/1518732722700619776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 25, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The reporter on Wednesday <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/27\/twitter-workers-freak-out-over-elon-musk-in-internal-slack-messages\/\">published<\/a> accounts of the freakout at the New York Post on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPhysically cringy watching Elon talk about free speech,\u201d a reliability engineer at the site said, according to Ngo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re all going through the five stages of grief in cycles and everyone\u2019s nerves are frazzled,\u201d a senior staff software engineer posted to Slack, calling Musk an \u201ca**hole.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re all spinning our wheels, and coming up with worst case scenarios (Trump returns! No more moderation!). The fact is that [Musk] has not talked about what he\u2019s planning on doing in any detail outside of broad sweeping statements that could be easily seen as hyperbolic showboating,\u201d the employee wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot the place to say it perhaps, but I will not work for this company after the takeover,\u201d a\u00a0senior staff video engineer announced to his colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFollowing the back-and-forth among multiple employees angry about the news,\u00a0some warned that their communications on Slack could be searched,\u201d Ngo reported. \u201cThe employees then moved their conversations onto their personal devices using the encrypted chat application Signal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Employees at a video meeting reportedly pressed Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal about the Tesla founder, video from Project Veritas revealed.<\/p>\n<p>For example, one employee \u201casked for more clarity on what Musk may have meant by \u2018free speech,&#8217;\u201d Tech Crunch <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2022\/04\/27\/twitter-leaked-all-hands-call\/\">reported<\/a>. \u201cAgrawal said everyone understood what free speech meant, as it\u2019s a concept that\u2019s existed for a while,\u201d according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I think I am going to try and read the question behind the question here, which is, where might Twitter\u2019s product go as a private company in the future once the deal closes?\u201d Agrawal responded, adding, \u201cTo best gain perspective on this \u2026 we\u2019ll find ways to bring Elon in for a Q&#038;A with all of you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The CEO told employees the company \u201cwill continue making decisions as we always have, guided by the principles we\u2019ve had, which doesn\u2019t mean things won\u2019t change. Things have been changing. I\u2019ve been in this role for four months. \u2026 Once the deal closes, different decisions might be made. For us to gain insight into that, we\u2019ll be finding a way to have Elon talk with all of you at the soonest possible opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tech Crunch on Wednesday <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2022\/04\/27\/twitter-leaked-all-hands-call\/\">admitted<\/a>\u00a0the leaked video from Project Veritas \u201cappears\u201d to match prior reports about the call.<\/p>\n<p>Reporter Yashar Ali on Monday said employees at a Twitter all-hands meeting worried about the Musk takeover, including one employee asking, \u201chow did we go from poison pill to this so quickly?\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">1. There&#8217;s going to be an all hands meeting at Twitter in about 15 minutes and Twitter employees are submitting questions. <\/p>\n<p>A source at Twitter is showing me some of the most common questions for this meeting\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Yashar Ali \ud83d\udc18 (@yashar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yashar\/status\/1518692782969266176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 25, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">3. Understandably lots of questions about what this sale will mean for employee stock options\/grants. <\/p>\n<p>Someone asks if any employee protection measures were negotiated as part of this deal. <\/p>\n<p>Another person asks if this means there will be a hiring freeze until the deal closes.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Yashar Ali \ud83d\udc18 (@yashar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yashar\/status\/1518692788216287232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 25, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">5. Another Twitter employee asks: \u201chow did we go from poison pill to this so quickly?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Yashar Ali \ud83d\udc18 (@yashar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yashar\/status\/1518698978614779909?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 25, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. 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