{"id":1725077,"date":"2022-11-04T12:34:17","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T16:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1725077"},"modified":"2022-11-04T12:49:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T16:49:00","slug":"elon-musk-axes-twitters-content-curation-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-axes-twitters-content-curation-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Axes Twitter&#8217;s &#8220;Content Curation Team&#8221;"},"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\">14<\/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-axes-twitters-content-curation-team%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=1725077&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:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/original_musk_buyout_deal.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/elon-musk-meets-with-civil-society-leaders-as-they-hold-twitter-ad-dollars-hostage-over-hate-speech-concerns\">Twitter<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;Curation&#8221; team, the group responsible for highlighting event on Twitter, has been fired, employees say.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Here\u2019s to the past and present Curation Tweeps I\u2019ve had the absolute pleasure of working with for the past 18 months,&#8221; said Laura Savvas of Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/i\/en\/curation\">Twitter&#8217;s description<\/a>, the curation team is &#8220;responsible for highlighting and contextualizing the best events and stories that unfold on Twitter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our work, across multiple product surfaces, including Topics, Trends descriptions, and Moments, makes it easy for customers to experience only-on-Twitter conversations and get the most out of the platform, regardless of which accounts they follow,&#8221; the description continues.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We manually monitor Trends and work to add context to help answer the question, &#8216;Why is this trending?&#8217; We do this by attaching a representative Tweet to the Trend, adding a title and description, or curating a Moment to give more direct context. We may also add a combination of these.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>The team was also responsible for &#8220;topics&#8221; that they say helped users find &#8220;relevant&#8221; info<\/p>\n<p>The curation team&#8217;s firing comes amid mass layoffs at the company, under the direction of new owner Elon Musk.\u00a0&#8220;Twitter employees were notified in the email that the layoffs were set to begin.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Workers were instructed to go home and not return to the offices on Friday as the cuts proceeded. The message, which came from a generic address and was signed &#8216;Twitter,&#8217; did not detail the total number of layoffs,&#8221; according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/jYIsS#selection-583.0-583.358\">The New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Musk dissolved Twitter&#8217;s Board of Directors and became the &#8220;sole director&#8221; of the company.<\/p>\n<p>Musk has also made it clear that he would be ending Twitter&#8217;s work-from-home policies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Twitter has had a massive drop in revenue, due to activist groups pressuring advertisers, even though nothing has changed with content moderation and we did everything we could to appease the activists,&#8221; said Elon Musk on Twitter. &#8220;Extremely messed up! They\u2019re trying to destroy free speech in America.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In an effort to place Twitter on a healthy path, we will go through the difficult process of reducing our global workforce on Friday,&#8221; said an email. &#8220;We recognize that this will impact a number of individuals who have made valuable contributions to Twitter, but this action is, unfortunately, necessary to ensure the company\u2019s success moving forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter&#8217;s &#8220;Curation&#8221; team, the group responsible for highlighting event on Twitter, has been fired, employees say.&#8221;Here\u2019s to the past and present Curation Tweeps I\u2019ve had the absolute pleasure of working<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1713211,"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-1725077","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\/1725077","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=1725077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1713211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1725077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1725077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1725077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}