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Fortune
Nicholas Gordon

Elon Musk reportedly fires employee for using Google Trends to explain falling engagement

Elon Musk at the 2022 Met Gala (Credit: Dimitrios Kambouris—Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue)

Twitter’s CEO isn’t happy that his tweets aren’t getting as much views as they used to, claims a new report, and has gone as far as to demand employees explain why his engagement is falling—and to fire one when he doesn’t like the explanation.

Elon Musk called a meeting Tuesday with the social media platform’s top engineers to demand an explanation, reported Platformer, a newsletter from tech journalists Casey Newton and Zoë Schiffer.

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