They filed a class-action lawsuit in federal court in San Francisco.
Just a week after the transition to Elon Musk's Twitter has laid off 50% of its employees. The head of security and integrity of the company Yoel Roth wrote about this in a tweet on November 4, while noting that the content moderation capabilities of the social network platform remain in place. It's also known that people have already taken legal action.
“Although we said goodbye to incredibly talented friends and colleagues yesterday, our core moderation capabilities remain in place,” wrote Yoel Roth.
Here are the facts about where Twitter's Trust & Safety and moderation capacity stands today:
tl;dr: While we said goodbye to incredibly talented friends and colleagues yesterday, our core moderation capabilities remain in place.
— Yoel Roth (@yoyoel) November 4, 2022
As Reuters explains, his tweet is designed to reassure users and advertisers following the company's takeover by billionaire Elon Musk.
< p>Roth also wrote that 15% of employees were laid off in the company's trust and safety group, and 50% of employees were laid off companywide.
Yesterday's reduction in force affected approximately 15% of our Trust & Safety organization (as opposed to approximately 50% cuts company-wide), with our front-line moderation staff experiencing the least impact.
— Yoel Roth (@yoyoel) November 4, 2022
Recall that the media reported that the new owner of Twitter is an American billionaire Elon Musk intends to lay off 3,700 employees of the company, which he acquired for $44 billion, in order to minimize costs.
Twitter employees, according to Bloomberg, have filed a class-action lawsuit in San Francisco federal court. The lawsuit asks the court to compel Twitter to comply with US labor laws and to prohibit the company from requiring employees to sign documents waiving their right to participate in the lawsuit.
“We filed this lawsuit to making sure employees know they don't have to give up their rights and that they have the opportunity to assert their rights,” said attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan.
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Add that, according to Technology Review, since the acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk, namely since October 27, more than 875 thousand users have deactivated their social network accounts. and half a million more were suspended.
