Those who largely only retweet criticism of Musk are also shown the door:
But reportedly, many employees are being fired just for criticizing Musk in the company’s private Slack.
“My Twitter account was secured at the time, so I can only assume it was because I wasn’t showing 100% loyalty in slack,” wrote Nick Morganwho had tweeted some criticism also on his Twitter account. He posted a copy of his resignation notice:
Anonymous employees told Bloomberg that at least a dozen employees have been fired after criticizing Musk on various platforms.
Twitter, which no longer has a communications department, obviously says nothing about the layoffs, but Musk confirmed them in an underhanded tweet: “I want to apologize for firing these geniuses. Their immense talent will undoubtedly come in handy elsewhere.”
I wonder if The onion could be right:
