NEW: Employees who have criticized Elon Musk in Twitter’s Slack channels were fired overnight over email.
“We regret to inform you that your employment is terminated immediately,” they’re being told over email. “Your recent behavior has violated company policy.”
It’s not clear how many people were affected; seems like it’s more than 10 people but I’m working to learn more.
More in @Plaformer today; email me if you know something.
Here’s one of the affected employees, who had pushed back on Musk’s tweets blaming performance issues on Twitter’s architecture.
“One of the absolute best engineers we had,” one employee tells me. "A legend in her area of expertise.”
It’s important to note that Twitter has long cultivated a culture of internal dissent: “Communicate fearlessly to build trust.”
No internal codes of conduct have changed since Elon took over. So this is all out of the blue.
Employees say it appears that around 20 people have been fired so far for their Slack posts.
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