Furious Twitter staffers slam Elon Musk as transphobic at all-hands | Daily Mail Online

In an emergency meeting on Friday, Twitter employees lashed out over Elon Musk’s deal to acquire the company for $44 billion, accusing the world’s richest man of bigotry and fretting over potential job cuts once the deal closes.Staffers at the ‘impromptu’ all-hands meeting fired angry questions at executives including CEO Parag Agrawal, who was described as looking tired and at times annoyed, according to Insider. Reached by DailyMail.com on Saturday morning, a Twitter spokeswoman declined to comment. One employee at the meeting described Musk as anti-gay and anti-transgender, expressing fear that his ownership would hurt efforts to recruit new employees.’What should we tell the LGTBQ community at recruiting conferences we’re lined up to attend when they ask us why they should come work at Twitter when we just sold ourselves to an open homophobe and transphobe?’ the staffer asked Dalana Brand, Twitter’s chief people and diversity officer.Brand diplomatically avoided agreeing with that assessment of Musk, responding: ‘I cannot speak to Elon’s personal feelings on these things. I can’t speak to what he’s done in his other companies, in terms of people’s experiences.’ ‘Perhaps in the future we’ll be able to have a conversation. That may be telling,’ she added. At an all-hands meeting on Friday,…
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