Twitter-Musk Update: Musk Declares ‘Amnesty,’ Also Reportedly Fires More Staff Before Holiday – By Queenie Wong & Sean Keane (CNET) / Nov 24, 2022
The changes are giving us whiplash. Here’s a timeline to keep you up to date.
Twitter’s always been a bit chaotic, but its new owner and CEO, Elon Musk, is taking that to a whole new level. He’s been making dramatic changes since he bought the company for $44 billion on Oct. 27, including laying off half the staff while changing moderation policies and unbanning extremist accounts.
Twitter’s saga with Musk, who also runs automaker Tesla and aerospace company SpaceX, was chaotic even before he took control. He signed a deal in April to acquire the company but then tried to back out of it, leading Twitter to sue him. After months of pretrial skirmishes, Musk closed the acquisition just before a court-ordered deadline.
After laying off half the staff and most contractors, he gave remaining employees an ultimatum last week to pledge to work under his new intense culture or get out. Many, it seems, decided to leave. The evacuation of Twitter by thousands of its workers has spurred worries of outages, hacks and disruptions.
