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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Technology
Gloria Oladipo in New York

Former Twitter chief Jack Dorsey issues apology amid mass layoffs

Jack Dorsey, the former Twitter chief executive.
Jack Dorsey, the former Twitter chief executive. Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images

The former Twitter chief executive officer Jack Dorsey has gone on the platform recently acquired by the billionaire Elon Musk to apologize for the state of the site, which has laid off thousands of workers.

On Saturday Dorsey published a series of tweets in response to the layoffs across Twitter’s workforce, which began on Friday. As many as half of the company’s 7,500 staffers could be axed since Musk acquired the company for $44bn last week.

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