Elon Musk fires at least 50 more Twitter employees, including executives: report

At least 50 more Twitter employees have been laid off in the latest round of layoffs since Elon Musk bought the company last year for $44 billion, according to a new report.

Saturday’s layoffs affected several engineering teams, including those working on ad tech, Twitter’s core app, and the digital infrastructure that powers the social media giant’s systems, The Information reports.

The tech website cited sources with direct knowledge of the matter as saying the layoffs marked at least the eighth round of cuts under Musk, according to Reuters.

Those canned appeared to include senior product manager Martijn de Kuijper, whose Dutch startup, digital newsletter company Revue, was bought by Twitter for an undisclosed amount in January 2021.

“When I woke up, I found that my email was blocked. Looks like they let me go. Now my Revue journey is truly over.” de Kuiper tweeted early sunday.

Revue continued to operate as a separate company after being acquired by Twitter, but was shut down on February 18, with a post on its website calling the move a “difficult decision.”

Advertisers have cut or stopped spending on Twitter since Musk, a self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist,” bought it in October and reinstated controversial users, including former President Donald Trump.

Musk also hired a team of independent journalists to look into the company’s internal records to uncover past “suppression of free speech” through an ongoing “Twitter Files” series.

The first issue detailed the company’s actions against The Post after it exposed Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop in October 2029.

Earlier this month, Musk, whose net worth is estimated at $190.8 billion, making him the second richest person in the world, tweeted that he saved Twitter “from bankruptcy” and that the company is “now aiming to break even” after three ” extremely difficult months.

Musk highlighted the company’s financial woes last week after The Wall Street Journal reported that at least nine lawsuits were filed against the platform, seeking more than $14 million, plus interest, before he took over the platform.

“Say what you want about me, but I purchased the world’s largest nonprofit for $44 billion lol,” Musk tweeted on Tuesday.

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