According to Terekhov, Musk initiated the layoffs for “political reasons” rather than technical reasons. Initially, 7 thousand people worked at the headquarters of the social network in San Francisco, which was most affected by the layoffs, after the layoffs there were 2.3 thousand people. At the same time, Musk said there would be no more layoffs.
The expert believes that Elon Musk, on the backdrop of his new Twitter policy, likely overpaid employees who were involved in the censorship. This may be precisely because Musk announced that once he owns the social network, Twitter will be the most open platform.
As Terekhov noted, after the “cleanup” of the social network is over, Musk will begin to restore it to its former glory. “All other changes within the company will be about restoring Twitter to its former glory. First of all, this will happen by unlocking all previously banned users. You can already do this by unblocking the account of former US President Donald Trump or famous rapper Kanye West. We saw it in the example of its removal,” stressed the social media expert.
Source: Ferra
