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A day of chaos raises the prospect of a collapse on social media.
Several Twitter employees spoke out against the company’s new microblogging service Twitter Blue, saying that it’s discriminatory for people with verification checkmarks and could lead to abuse of social media. “Twitter’s current lords and Peasant system for who has or doesn’t have a Blue Checkmark is bullshit,” an employee said. Another employee said, “I don’t…
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As the takeover continues, employees are bracing for layoffs.
Ex- Twitter employees have filed a class-action lawsuit against the microblogging platform for not giving them enough notice of mass firings. The lawsuit alleged that Twitter violated the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, which requires companies to give employees at least 60 days’ notice before mass firings. It also alleged that the workers…
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How high will interest rates go?
Two Twitter employees who worked at the microblogging platform’s HQ in Bengaluru have said the move to charge users for verification is a “risk” to Twitter. “The risk is that within a month or so, there’s just going to be way more misinformation, confusion, hoaxes, and scams on Twitter, because nobody knows who’s who,” one…