(The Guardian) X cuts half of election integrity team – report
Elon Musk’s X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, has axed around half of its global team dedicated to tracking election disinformation, according to a report by the Information.
The cuts, which reportedly include the head of the Dublin-based team, come less than a month after the company said it would expand its safety and election teams.
X executives told the team last week that “having elections integrity employees based in Europe wasn’t necessary,” according to the report. The team had about two dozen employees before Musk bought the platform, and is now down to less than half of that.
Elon Musk’s X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, has axed around half of its global team dedicated to tracking election disinformation, according to a report by the Information.
The cuts, which reportedly include the head of the Dublin-based team, come less than a month after the company said it would expand its safety and election teams.
X executives told the team last week that “having elections integrity employees based in Europe wasn’t necessary,” according to the report. The team had about two dozen employees before Musk bought the platform, and is now down to less than half of that.
