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Elon Musk’s latest Twitter layoffs: Outsourced content moderators
14Nov By adminNo Comments
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Elon Musk’s latest Twitter layoffs: Outsourced content moderators

[ad_1] Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk is further gutting the teams that battle misinformation on the social media platform. Twitter's new owner Elon Musk is further gutting the teams that battle misinformation on the social media platform as outsourced moderators learned over the weekend they were out of a job.Twitter and other big social media firms have relied heavily on contractors to track hate and enforce rules against harmful content. But many of those content watchdogs have now headed out the door, first when Twitter fired much of its full-time workforce by email on Nov. 4 and now as it moves to eliminate an untold number of contract jobs. Melissa Ingle, who worked at Twitter as a contractor for more than a year, was one of a number of contractors who said they were terminated S...
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Tech Job Cuts: Worst Offenders- Better, Verizon, Bird to Robbs
13Nov By adminNo Comments
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Tech Job Cuts: Worst Offenders- Better, Verizon, Bird to Robbs

[ad_1] Some of the most infamous involve fire drills, early aughts text messages and pink slips for Christmas. Twitter Inc.'s mass layoffs have shocked onlookers and insiders alike, but it's not the first company — and won't be the last — to be seen as bungling the messy business of sacking staff.Since billionaire Elon Musk bought the social media platform for $44 billion, he fired close to 3,700 people, only to reach out to dozens soon thereafter to ask them to come back. Twitter didn't reply to a request for comment. All eyes are also on Meta Platforms Inc. as Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg announced more than 11,000 jobs will be slashed from payrolls. In addition to damaging productivity and morale, poorly handled layoffs can tarnish an employer's brand. When things turn a...
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‘I Got This Wrong’ Wasn’t the Apology We Needed From Big Tech
11Nov By adminNo Comments
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‘I Got This Wrong’ Wasn’t the Apology We Needed From Big Tech

[ad_1] As they slashed thousands of jobs, founders of Facebook, Twitter and Stripe expressed regret for excessive optimism. But that wasn’t the real problem. It's par for the course to make mistakes in technology. A product goes nowhere so you shut it down and move on; regulators give you slaps on the wrist; you fight the odd lawsuit. Most costs amount to pocket change because when you're moving fast and breaking things in tech, consequences aren't that painful. Except now they are. For the first time in their history, Facebook, Twitter and other tech firms are cutting thousands of jobs, killing tech's reputation as a haven for employment, trussed up with free meals and high salaries. It is the hardest thing their founders have done, they said in long, apologetic memos announcing...
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Silicon Valley Job Cuts Are No Cure-All for Tech’s Falling Stock Prices
8Nov By adminNo Comments
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Silicon Valley Job Cuts Are No Cure-All for Tech’s Falling Stock Prices

[ad_1] Companies such as Meta Platforms Inc. are waking up to investor demands that they cut costs in the face of a looming recession… Companies such as Meta Platforms Inc. are waking up to investor demands that they cut costs in the face of a looming recession, but shareholders looking for relief from the relentless tech-stock selloff can only take so much comfort from that. Facebook parent Meta plans to cut thousands of jobs beginning this week, the Wall Street Journal reported. That comes after Apple Inc., Alphabet Inc.'s Google and Microsoft Corp. either froze hiring or said they're re-evaluating staffing needs as the breakneck growth that the tech industry has enjoyed fades in the face of inflation and rising interest rates. While layoffs bring economic pain to households, i...
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Twitter Layoffs Will Shrink Free Speech Around the World
8Nov By adminNo Comments
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Twitter Layoffs Will Shrink Free Speech Around the World

[ad_1] Elon Musk thinks firing content moderators will promote unmediated expression. Outside the US, it will have the opposite effect. Twitter Inc. — now under new management, if that's the right word — fired about half its workers over the weekend, a big story by anyone's standards. Yet some teams and countries suffered worse — and that is a story with global political implications.In India, for example, Twitter seems to have laid off 90% of its employees. In Brazil, a team of 150 was let go, according to Bloomberg Línea. Shortly after Elon Musk took over the company, the number of employees with the ability to suspend or ban an account for breaches of user policies was at least temporarily reduced from “hundreds” to about 15. Musk's vision for Twitter is not particularly complex. H...
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Elon Musk launches crackdown against some Twitter handles
7Nov By adminNo Comments
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Elon Musk launches crackdown against some Twitter handles

[ad_1] Elon Musk said that any Twitter handles that are found engaged in 'impersonation' without clearly specifying "parody" will be suspended. Elon Musk on Sunday said through a series of tweets that any Twitter handles found engaged in 'impersonation' without clearly specifying "parody" will be suspended permanently. "Going forward, any Twitter handles engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying "parody" will be permanently suspended," Musk tweeted. Twitter's new CEO further said that unlike before, no warning will be given now as widespread verification is being rolled out. "Previously, we issued a warning before the suspension, but now that we are rolling out widespread verification, there will be no warning. This will be clearly identified as a condition for signi...
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Anatomy of the week the Elon Musk tornado hit Twitter
7Nov By adminNo Comments
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Anatomy of the week the Elon Musk tornado hit Twitter

[ad_1] The whirlwind week that Elon Musk took over Twitter began with sleepless nights for company engineers -- and ended with half the staff getting the axe. The whirlwind week that Elon Musk took over Twitter began with sleepless nights for company engineers -- and ended with half the staff getting the axe. "It was a strange week," said one former employee speaking on condition of anonymity. "Executives were getting fired or were resigning, but there was basically no official communication until 5 pm Thursday," some seven days after the deal was made official. The employees received a first email Thursday informing them that they would know their fate the next day. On Friday, the second email confirmed the rumors: 50 percent of the staff lost their jobs. The cull hit the mar...
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Elon Musk era takes hold on Twitter
6Nov By adminNo Comments
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Elon Musk era takes hold on Twitter

[ad_1] Twitter raises grave concerns about chaos enveloping the social media platform and its ability to fight disinformation. Twitter began widespread layoffs Friday as new owner Elon Musk overhauls the company, raising grave concerns about chaos enveloping the social media platform and its ability to fight disinformation just days ahead of the U.S. midterm elections. The speed and size of the cuts also opened Musk and Twitter to lawsuits. At least one was filed alleging Twitter violated federal law by not providing fired employees the required notice. The San Francisco-based company told workers by email Thursday that they would learn Friday if they had been laid off. About half of the company's staff of 7,500 was let go, Yoel Roth, Twitter's head of safety & integrity, con...
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THERMONUCLEAR! Elon Musk threatens to name shame advertisers backing out from Twitter
5Nov By adminNo Comments
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THERMONUCLEAR! Elon Musk threatens to name shame advertisers backing out from Twitter

[ad_1] Tesla CEO Elon Musk threatened to name-shame the advertisers who are backing out from Twitter. Tesla CEO Elon Musk threatened to name-shame the advertisers who are backing out from Twitter after the micro-blogging site announced mass layoffs.While replying to a user on Twitter, Elon Musk said, "Thank you. A thermonuclear name & shame is exactly what will happen if this continues." Mike Davis, a user on Twitter said, "Dear @elonmusk: You have nearly 114,000,000 Twitter followers. Name and shame the advertisers who are succumbing to the advertiser boycotts. So we can counter-boycott them. And get your USD 8 monthly subscription going asap. So we can start to makeup for lost revenue now." In a series of tweets, Tesla CEO has blamed "activist groups pressuring advertisers" for ...
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