How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter

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🗓️ 11 September 2024

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After buying Twitter in 2022, Elon Musk instituted sweeping changes. He laid off or fired about 75% of the staff –including about half the data scientists. He also ended rules banning hate speech and misinformation. Authors Kate Conger and Ryan Mac recount the takeover in Character Limit.

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0:26.0	Trump has said that if he's reelected, he would appoint Elon Musk as the head of a new efficiency
0:31.8	commission with the mission of conducting a complete financial
0:35.4	and performance audit of the entire federal government and making recommendations for
0:40.3	drastic reforms.
0:42.3	How have Musk's drastic efficiency reforms? for drastic
0:43.7	efficiency reforms and other major changes worked out at what was Twitter and became X after Musk's
0:50.7	takeover.
0:51.7	Musk laid off or fired about 75% of the staff,
0:56.0	eliminated rules banning hate speech and disinformation,
1:00.0	alienated many advertisers
1:02.0	as well as users of the platform and lost money.
1:05.9	Musk has made major financial contributions to Trump's re-election campaign and has endorsed him on X.
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