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Weekend: Half of Twitter's workforce sacked

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Half of Twitter's workforce sacked

05/11/2022 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, Half of Twitter's workforce sacked

What impact will the mass sackings at Twitter have on the platform's moderation?

Elon Musk defends his decision to sack thousands of staff at Twitter, but how will this affect the moderation of the platform?

We hear from a resident of the occupied Ukrainian city of Kherson, which Ukrainain forces are trying to retake.

And the committee investigating the attack on the US Capitol building gives Donald Trump more time to hand over documents, but will he?

Joining Julian Worricker to discuss these and other issues are Leslie Vinjamuri, Director of the US and the Americas programme at the Chatham House international affairs think tank here in London and also a lecturer in international relations at London University's School of Oriental and African Studies; and Maher Mezahi, a Canadian-Algerian journalist who's usually based in Algiers and who specialises in covering football.

(Image: Twitter headquarters on Market Street in San Francisco, California. Credit: David Odisho/Getty Images)

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