{"id":1726158,"date":"2022-11-06T20:04:31","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T01:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1726158"},"modified":"2022-11-06T20:04:46","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T01:04:46","slug":"jack-dorsey-makes-surprising-statement-about-elon-musk-laying-off-half-the-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jack-dorsey-makes-surprising-statement-about-elon-musk-laying-off-half-the-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Dorsey Makes Surprising Statement About Elon Musk Laying Off Half The Company"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fjack-dorsey-makes-surprising-statement-about-elon-musk-laying-off-half-the-company%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=1726158&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--><p>Former Twitter CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/jack-dorsey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jack Dorsey<\/a> apologized to Twitter employees Saturday morning for growing the company too fast, which led to the current moment where new CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/elon-musk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elon Musk<\/a> has now laid off roughly half the company.<\/p>\n<p>Dorsey\u2019s comments come after Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/read-it-elon-musk-sends-blunt-message-to-3700-fired-twitter-employees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">laid off<\/a> 3,700 people on Friday in an email from the company\u2019s workforce of 7,500 employees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFolks at Twitter past and present are strong and resilient,\u201d Dorsey said. \u201cThey will always find a way no matter how difficult the moment. I realize many are angry with me. I own the responsibility for why everyone is in this situation: I grew the company size too quickly. I apologize for that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am grateful for, and love, everyone who has ever worked on Twitter,\u201d he continued. \u201cI don\u2019t expect that to be mutual in this moment\u2026or ever\u2026and I understand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I am grateful for, and love, everyone who has ever worked on Twitter. I don&#8217;t expect that to be mutual in this moment\u2026or ever\u2026and I understand. \ud83d\udc99<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 jack (@jack) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jack\/status\/1588913278566436865?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The comments from Dorsey come while Musk faces enormous pressure to turn the social media platform around, which has not been profitable for years.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/11\/04\/technology\/elon-musk-twitter-layoffs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">noted<\/a> that not only does Musk have to worry about an economy that is slowing down, many advertisers, which comprise the overwhelming source of the company\u2019s revenue, have paused their spending on the platform as far-left groups push companies to abandon Twitter over a lack of content moderation.<\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s richest man, who said he bought the company for $44 billion in order to reserve a corner of the public square for open dialogue and free expression, induced\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/leftists-fume-after-musk-takes-over-twitter-its-like-the-gates-of-hell-opened-on-this-site\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">leftist ire<\/a>\u00a0after he officially took over the platform last week. Musk said that a number of advertisers have ended their relationships with the company over the past several days, dealing a significant blow to the business.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwitter 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,\u201d Musk tweeted. \u201cExtremely messed up! They\u2019re trying to destroy free speech in America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musk later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/battle-bird-musk-warns-of-thermonuclear-war-against-companies-caving-to-far-left-boycott-demands\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> that he would publicly blast the companies that are leaving his platform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA thermonuclear name &#038; shame is exactly what will happen if this continues,\u201d he tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>A number of leftist-aligned organizations, including Media Matters for America, the NAACP, the National Center for Transgender Equality, and the Union of Concerned Scientists, recently wrote a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freepress.net\/sites\/default\/files\/2022-11\/coalition_open_letter_to_twitter_top_20_advertisers_final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter<\/a>\u00a0to the executives of major advertisers, calling on them to \u201ccease all advertising\u201d if Musk backs down from content moderation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot only are extremists celebrating Musk\u2019s takeover of Twitter, they are seeing it as a new opportunity to post the most abusive, harassing, and racist language and imagery,\u201d the organizations alleged. \u201cThis includes clear threats of violence against people with whom they disagree. Without deliberate efforts by Twitter to address this type of abuse and hate, your brands will be actively supporting accelerating extremism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Ben Zeisloft contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey apologized to Twitter employees Saturday morning for growing the company too fast, which led to the current moment where new CEO Elon Musk has now laid off roughly half the company. 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