Musk fires Twitter engineers after critical posts on Twitter, Slack
Elon Musk has fired a group of Twitter engineers, some of whom posted critical comments either on the social network or on its internal Slack messaging system,
Elon Musk has fired a group of Twitter engineers, some of whom posted critical comments either on the social network or on its internal Slack messaging system, according to two current Twitter employees and one former employee familiar with the situation.
NBC News could not confirm exactly how many employees had been let go in the latest firings, but one person familiar with the situation estimated it could be as high as 20. The people asked to withhold their names out of concern of professional consequences and fears of retaliation.
Some of the newly fired engineers spoke out on Twitter, others in a widely accessible internal Slack channel called “social watercooler.”
Musk had already tweeted Monday that he had fired at least one engineer who publicly criticized him on Twitter.
The latest terminations come in the wake of Musk’s decision to let go of about half of all Twitter employees in a bid to cut costs.
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