“The bird is released” (sic). With this sentence, Elon Musk announced that it had finalized the purchase of Twitter for 44 billion dollars and that it had made its first decisions. Among them, the dismissal of several executives, including Parag Agrawal, the CEO of the company founded by Jack Dorsey.
What began in April, with an offer that was later withdrawn arguing the number of bots on the platforms, became a reality after some legal fights.
Musk constantly criticized the network’s restrictive policy, which has almost 400 million users: now you can make changes. Many changes.
The status of layoffs on Twitter, from executives to staff
The first ones he carried out, as we have said, were the dismissals of a handful of executives. According to TheVerge, they already left agrawal, the financial director Ned Segal, Y Vijaya Gadde, chief policy officer of the company. He also took out Sean Edgett, general counsel, and Sarah Personette, director of customer service.
Business Insider He pointed out that each one received a good payment for his goodbye to the company:
- Agrawal, $38.7 million.
- Segal, $25.4 million.
- Gadde, $12.5 million.
- Personette, $11.2 million.
- What Edgett was paid was not reported.
Musk then tried to calm the waters among Twitter workers. Reports before the acquisition indicated that he would lay off 75% of the workforce. Now, according to Bloomberg, the south african said the figure was inaccurate: everything indicates that there will be less of those deleted.
It is also possible that the platform collect some money from governments and corporations, as part of reducing costs and increasing revenue.
Elon Musk and the freedom of expression of Twitter, will he return Donald Trump’s account?
One of the hottest topics on Twitter is the return of accounts that had been suspended for violating the platform’s policies. Among them is that of the former president of the United States, Donald Trump, after his supporters attacked the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Musk suggested that will change the way social network moderation works, relaxing several of its policies. Trump and his supporters, among hundreds of thousands of others, may have their accounts back.
The tycoon previously stated that “It is essential to have freedom of expression and to be able to communicate freely.” However, by not intervening on the platform it makes it possible for racial slurs, violent graphic content, bullying and more to increase.
to be reinforced as a toxic and hateful app.
How will Elon Musk handle this? We will have to wait to see it.
And how will you fight the bots?
There has been no talk about how it will be fought against bots on the microblogging platform. This was a point of honor for Musk, who said that there were many spam accounts, when Twitter indicated that it was 5% of the total.
Musk is expected to share more about his plan for Twitter this Friday at a meeting with employees.