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Raquel Maria Dillon

Twitter layoffs begin, sparking a lawsuit and backlash

A receptionist works Oct. 26 in the lobby of the building that houses the Twitter office in New York. (Mary Altaffer/AP)

Long-dreaded layoffs are finally happening at Twitter, which has been owned by billionaire Elon Musk for just over a week. They have sparked a lawsuit from employees and a call for advertisers to boycott.

About 50% of the staff was cut company-wide, according to a tweet from Yoel Roth, Twitter's head of safety and integrity, the division responsible for monitoring tweets for violence, hate and other banned material.

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