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Business Matters: Unexpected number of Twitter’s layoffs rocked the tech sector

Unexpected number of Twitter’s layoffs rocked the tech sector

05/11/2022 GMT

BBC World Service - Business Matters, Unexpected number of Twitter’s layoffs rocked the tech sector

Twitter's "reduction in force" left thousands out of work.

Elon Mask didn’t touch the most of the 2,000+ content moderators working for Twitter.

Grim day for Twitter’s employees. Many staff revealed that their jobs have been axed in posts on the platform, painting a picture of cuts that spanned the globe and hit departments that ranged from marketing to engineering.

They included communications, content curation, and product development employees. Kurt Wagner, social media correspondent at Bloomberg told us how the job cuts will affect the company. 

Also in the programme, we speak to environment correspondent Matt Mcgrath about the upcoming COP27 summit in Egypt which kicks off this weekend. 

We talked to Mitali Nikore, an economist from Delhi about the cost of air pollution in India.

With our guests Mehmal Sarfraz, Co-founder of The Current PK, Journalist for Geo TV's Report Card and Diane Brady, Assistant Managing Editor at Forbes we discussed devastating floods in Pakistan and financial consequences for Kanye West after his public antisemitism speech. 
 
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