{"id":1723071,"date":"2022-11-03T07:57:06","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T11:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1723071"},"modified":"2022-11-03T11:03:50","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T15:03:50","slug":"elon-musk-set-to-fire-half-of-twitter-workforce-in-friday-purge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-set-to-fire-half-of-twitter-workforce-in-friday-purge\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Set to Fire Half of Twitter Workforce in Friday Purge"},"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\">24<\/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%2Felon-musk-set-to-fire-half-of-twitter-workforce-in-friday-purge%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=1723071&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\/11\/NTCEO.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>New Twitter CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/elon-musk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elon Musk<\/a> will reportedly eliminate half of the company\u2019s workforce at the end of this week as he tries to make the company profitable.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-11-02\/musk-plans-to-eliminate-half-of-twitter-jobs-in-cost-cut-drive?sref=PFCuwcPr&#038;utm_source=twitter&#038;utm_content=tech&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&#038;utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&#038;cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-tech#xj4y7vzkg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> that Musk is cutting 3,700 of the company\u2019s 7,500 employees and that employees will be notified of their dismissal on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Musk is also reportedly canceling a work-from-anywhere policy and is going to force employees to come into the office to work.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes after initial reports suggested that Musk could cut up to 75% of the company\u2019s workforce, though subsequent reports suggested that the number could be as low as 25%.<\/p>\n<p>The details regarding the dismissal of the employees were not immediately clear, although the report said that Musk was considering paying them up to two months of severance pay.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/10\/29\/technology\/twitter-layoffs-musk-jobs.html\">reported<\/a>\u00a0that Musk \u201cordered the cuts across the company, with some teams to be trimmed more than others,\u201d adding that \u201csome managers [were] being asked to draw up lists of employees to cut.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musk took over the company Thursday evening after a six-month legal battle saw the deal nearly fall through and Twitter took Musk to court to force him to close on the company.<\/p>\n<p>Musk began his new reign at the company by firing leftist CEO Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal, and Vijaya Gadde, head of legal policy, trust, and safety, The Washington Post\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2022\/10\/27\/twitter-elon-musk\/\">reported<\/a>. The report said Musk also fired the company\u2019s general counsel, Sean Edgett, who was escorted out of the building.<\/p>\n<p>Musk has since announced he is going to charge verified accounts a monthly fee to keep their verified status, which he will also now offer to random users who are not public figures, a move that has garnered a lot of backlash across the political spectrum.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/elon-musk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Musk<\/a> is also reportedly restoring the content moderation tools that he briefly suspended after taking over following a meeting that he had this week with left-wing groups.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-11-02\/musk-agrees-to-restore-twitter-content-moderation-tools-this-week\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> that Musk \u201cpromised\u201d the groups that he would \u201crestore content moderation tools that had been blocked for some staff by the end of the week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musk\u2019s decision comes after the leaders complained about Musk\u2019s plans \u201cto relax speech protections on the platform and restore the accounts of users who had been removed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/musk-agrees-to-restore-censorship-tools-after-meeting-with-leftists-elon-caved-in-less-than-a-week\">Musk Agrees To Restore Censorship Tools After Meeting With Leftists: \u2018Elon Caved In Less Than A Week\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Twitter CEO Elon Musk will reportedly eliminate half of the company\u2019s workforce at the end of this week as he tries to make the company profitable.Bloomberg News reported that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1722371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1723071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1723071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1722371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1723071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1723071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1723071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}