ヘイトスピーチと戦うことなんかTwitter社に期待していないのですが。。。
The Washington Post
引用:億万長者のイーロン・マスク氏は、Twitterを買収する際に大規模な削減を行い、同社の圧倒的大多数を追い出すと報じられています。
ワシントンポスト紙は、マスク氏が投資家に対し、「ツイッターの従業員7,500人のうち75%近くを解雇し、2,000人強のスケルトンスタッフにまで会社を縮小する計画だ」と語ったと報じています。
この報告書によると、マスク氏は会社を解体することが最初のステップであり、その後、新規採用によって会社を再構築することができると考えているとのことです。
この報告書は、オラクルの共同創業者ラリー・エリソン氏やセコイアのパートナーであるダグ・レオン氏など、マスク氏と共にツイッターへの投資を手伝うことにした人たちのことも明らかにしており、ポスト紙は、"トランプ支持者で、マスク氏がプラットフォームに戻すと約束したタイプの言論の自由の思想の信奉者を自称していた "としている。
このレポートは、ヘッジファンドマネージャーのケネス・グリフィンも、"現在の中間選挙サイクルで2番目に大きな共和党の寄付者であり、エリソンからの10億ドルに対して、2000万ドル以下という少額ですが、この取引にコミットしています "と付け加えています。
Elon Musk Set To Cut Twitter Workforce By 75 Percent: Report
Elon Musk is prepared to make major changes to the workforce at Twitter when he officially owns the company.
The Tesla, Space X, and Starlink CEO plans to cut the workforce by “nearly 75 percent of Twitter’s 7,500 workers, whittling the company down to a skeleton staff of just over 2,000, the Washington Post reported. But even if Musk does not complete his purchase of Twitter the report said that the current owners plan to cut the workforce by 25 percent.
The extent of the cuts, which have not been previously reported, helps explain why Twitter officials were eager to sell to Musk: Musk’s $44 billion bid, though hostile, is a golden ticket for the struggling company — potentially helping its leadership avoid painful announcements that would have demoralized the staff and possibly crippled the service’s ability to combat misinformation, hate speech and spam.
The impact of such layoffs would likely be immediately felt by millions of users, said Edwin Chen, a data scientist formerly in charge of Twitter’s spam and health metrics and now CEO of the content-moderation start-up Surge AI. He said that while he believed Twitter was overstaffed, the cuts Musk proposed were “unimaginable” and would put Twitter’s users at risk of hacks and exposure to offensive material such as child pornography.
“It would be a cascading effect,” the data scientist said. “where you’d have services going down and the people remaining not having the institutional knowledge to get them back up, and being completely demoralized and wanting to leave themselves.”
“The easy part for Musk was buying Twitter and the hard part is fixing it,” financial analyst Dan Ives said. “It will be a herculean challenge to turn this around.”
“He’s got to be able to show if he makes those cuts, what happens next?” corporate governance expert Nell Minow said. “What’s he gonna replace it with, AI?”
Social media giant Twitter has quietly made a move that indicates the company is confident Elon Musk’s bid to buy the platform will go through.
“Twitter Inc. froze the equity awards accounts for employees on Monday as the deadline to seal a deal with Elon Musk approaches,” Bloomberg Law reported. “The social media company updated its employee FAQ page this week to alert staff that they won’t be able to access or trade shares from the Equity Award Center. The page said the change was done ‘in anticipation of the closing of the pending acquisition of Twitter by an entity controlled by Elon Musk,’ according to two people familiar with the change. This freeze allows Schwab to perform the final reconciliation of employee accounts.”
“In retrospect, it was inevitable,” Musk noted in a now-deleted tweet that contained a photoshop image of Musk, Kanye West, and former President Donald Trump as the “Three Musketeers” trying to save free speech in the country by buying up or starting social media platforms.
The apparent finalization of Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of Twitter comes after rapper West, now formally known as Ye, announced he was buying social media start-up Parler last week.