Shitposter-in-Chief Elon Musk Is Firing Twitter Employees for Shitposting – Rolling Stone

After clearing out the C-suite, laying off half the company, and prompting high-profile resignations, the fragile CEO is canning anyone who defies him on the app Twitter employees who criticize or correct new owner Elon Musk, either on internal work channels or Twitter itself, are being fired by email, with no specific reason for termination given. “We regret to inform you that your employment is terminated effective immediately,” read an email shared with Rolling Stone by a former employee who pushed back against Musk. “Your recent behavior has violated company policy.” The rest of the email explains that the operations team will soon reach out with instructions for off-boarding, and is signed, simply, “Twitter.” The firings are just the latest wave of turmoil to hit the tech giant since Musk took it private weeks ago in a $44 billion deal and rapidly instigated a host of changes to the platform. Even as he fired most of the C-suite, laid off thousands of other employees, and drove remaining leadership to resign, he yukked it up on the app as always, rubbing elbows with far-right conspiracy theorists and posting a record number of rolling-laughing emojis in response to the anarchy unleashed. But
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