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Elon Musk has made a shocking move, perhaps the worst since taking over Twitter. He has fired an employee on Twitter through a horrific tweet. Twitter has been on a rollercoaster ride ever since the world's richest person, Elon Musk, took charge of the platform. On the first day of his takeover, he fired top executives including former CEO Parag Agrawal and legal head Vijaya Gadde. In days to follow, he conducted a mass layoff on the platform letting go of nearly 3,700 employees globally that also saw the entire…

Just like that, Manu Cornet’s time at Twitter was over. The prolific cartoonist and software engineer watched his services disconnect and laptop go blank in a meeting on Nov. 1. Less than a half hour later, he learned he was out, an early cut among the 3,700-plus Twitter employees who lost their jobs this month. Cornet’s time at Twitter was brief but well llustrated. With dozens of cartoons, Cornet depicted the feeling inside as Musk acquired the company. As the person behind some of the tech world’s best-known…

Twitter’s Ethical AI team has fallen who was the sole responsible for transparency in Twitter Elon Musk’s management team has recently cut Twitter’s AI ethical team of researchers who were working toward growing transparency in Twitter. Rumman Chowdhury, director of the ML Ethics, Transparency, and Accountability (META—no, not that one) team at Twitter, tweeted that she had been let go as part of mass layoffs implemented by new management—although it hardly seemed that she was relishing the idea of working under Musk.…

Key Disco Elysium developers' departures from ZA/UM has been shrouded in controversy, with game director Robert Kurvitz and art director Aleksander Rostov disagreeing with ZA/UM over the circumstances of their removal.Kurvitz and Rostov claimed they were forced out by investors who scammed their way into obtaining a majority share of the company, while ZA/UM representatives disagreed, and said the duo were fired for workplace misconduct. You need a javascript enabled…

Co-founder and former chief executive of TuSimple Holdings Inc. Xiaodi Hou combined forces with another major shareholder to oust the self-driving trucking company’s board of directors, according to a securities filing Thursday. The extraordinary move by Mr. Hou and fellow TuSimple co-founder Mo Chen follows the board’s decision on Oct. 30 to oust Mr. Hou from his roles as CEO and chairman. Board members at the time said they…

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In a rather unprecedented move, one of the biggest tech companies in the world has laid off 13% of its staff. Meta, the parent company of Facebook, announced that 11,000 employees across the world have been asked to leave. In a blog post, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that these have been “some of the most difficult changes we’ve made in Meta’s history.” Zuckerberg went in detail on why the company had fired a chunk of its employees and these are the eight main reasons:18Increased investments in e-commerceZuckerberg said…

“Abusive.” “Toxic.” “Chaotic clusterfuck.” Those were just some of the words used to describe the Yeezy work environment.An extensive new Rolling Stone report penned by Cheyenne Roundtree sheds more light on Kanye West’s fashion brand and the alleged mistreatment of its staffers and contractors. Numerous sources said they accepted positions believing they had landed a dream job; however, they quickly found themselves in a “cult-like atmosphere” that came with 12- to 15-hour work days, inconsistent or delayed payments, and…

Esports commentator and host Matthew ‘Sadokist’ Trivett has been fired from a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) tournament for allegedly smashing a TV. CS:GO’s Rio Major launched on October 31 and will continue to November 13. The 34-year-old took part in the initial Challenger’s Stage but was absent from the first day of the Legends Stage, which started November 5 and a replacement (Anders Blume) was announced the following day. Esports organisation ESL then released a statement confirming his departure from…

After massive Twitter layoffs, Musk wants a few of them back, presumably for his new Twitter plans Laying off around 3,700 employees at one go Twitter, Elon Musk has once again proved that he can go nuts when it comes to taking decisions. On Friday many Twitter employees found from companies’ different websites their employment getting terminated as part of Musk’s Twitter layoff plan. And later, in a surprising turn, dozens of Twitter employees were called back after finding out they were falsely fired or required for…