Elon Musk Complains About Twitter Losing Revenue As He Lays Off 50% Of Employees
On the same day as mass layoffs of 50% of Twitter staff were announced, its new owner Elon Musk also wrote a Tweet complaining about how unnamed “activist groups pressuring advertisers” are causing a dip in revenue of the platform. He also wrote bizarrely that advertisers choosing not to pay to be on his site is somehow an example of activists trying to “destroy free speech in America.” For a brief period, Musk’s own Tweet was flagged with a “notes” feature adding extra context, but that eventually got scrubbed. Seeing Elon try to blame anonymous activists for tanking the site and not his own ...