Welcome to the Tech Name Ride Home for Monday, November 14th, 2022. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Twitter still lives, at least at the time of this writing, but thousands more contractors have been laid off.

CZ wants to start a fund to save crypto projects, Paging Jonah Hill to play SBF in the movie that Michael

Lewis is shopping around Hollywood.

Meta is exiting the portal business and a big review of the Meta Quest Pro

is just downright befuddling.

Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

So Twitter survived the weekend, which at this point, I mean that's kind of where we're at.

That doesn't mean there wasn't chaos though.

Twitter apparently cut around 4,400 of its 5,500 contract staff back on November 12th,

which is expected to significantly impact content moderation and core infrastructure.

Quoting the verge.

The job cuts follow layoffs that called about half of Twitter's workforce and slash 15%

of its trust and safety team.

Platformer first reported about the mass firings on Saturday night,

which spanned both US-based and global employees

working in content moderation, real estate, marketing,

engineering, and other departments.

Twitter reportedly failed to notify managers of these job cuts as well, who didn't realize

their colleagues had been terminated until after seeing that their accounts have been deactivated in Twitter's system.

According to an internal email sent to contractors and obtained by Insider, which Insider says

Contractors didn't receive until after they'd learn they'd been locked out of their accounts.

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