Elon Musk on free speech, when revenue is at stake:

“Twitter has had a massive drop in revenue, due to activist groups pressuring advertisers, even though nothing has changed with content moderation and we did everything we could to appease the activists.”

“Extremely messed up! They’re trying to destroy free speech in America.”

Elon Musk on free speech, when revenue is at stake:

On Thursday evening, employees received a companywide email that said the layoffs would begin on Friday. They were instructed to go home and not go to the offices on Friday.“This action is unfortunately necessary to ensure the company’s success moving forward,” the email, which was signed Twitter, said. …

Laid-off workers were told not to publicly discuss their experience, according to a copy of the dismissal email seen by The Times.