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Within a week of takeover, Musk announces layoffs across Twitter

The sizeable layoffs days before US midterms have raised concerns disinformation could spread on the platform 'like wildfire' [File: Dado Ruvic/Illustration/Reuters]

Twitter Inc started a sizeable round of layoffs on Friday, alerting employees of their job status by email after barring entrances to offices and cutting off workers’ access to internal systems overnight.

The move follows a week of chaos and uncertainty about the company’s future under new owner Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, who tweeted on Friday that the service was experiencing a “massive drop in revenue” as advertisers pulled spending.

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