{"id":7695,"date":"2022-11-05T05:37:51","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T04:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/05\/twitters-mass-layoffs-days-before-us-midterms-could-be-a-misinformation-disaster\/"},"modified":"2022-11-05T05:37:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T04:37:51","slug":"twitters-mass-layoffs-days-before-us-midterms-could-be-a-misinformation-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/05\/twitters-mass-layoffs-days-before-us-midterms-could-be-a-misinformation-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter\u2019s mass layoffs, days before US midterms, could be a misinformation disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Internal chaos at the company \u2013 and the decimation of its staff \u2013 has created ideal conditions for falsehoods and hateful content<\/p>\n<p>The mass layoffs at Twitter that diminished <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2022\/nov\/04\/twitter-sued-layoffs-sizewell-nuclear-plant-uk-recession-us-jobs-business-live?page=with:block-636582e28f08724ddafaadaa#block-636582e28f08724ddafaadaa\">several teams<\/a>, including staff on the company\u2019s safety and misinformation teams, could spell disaster during the US midterm elections next week, experts have warned. <\/p>\n<p>The company has laid off around 50% of its workforce, according to news reports; a figure that Musk and others have not disputed, amounting to an estimated 3,700 people.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/nov\/04\/twitters-mass-layoffs-days-before-us-midterms-could-be-a-misinformation-disaster\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/aff451e379f1b778527394985e4cc72c4bbe36e4\/0_90_5301_3181\/master\/5301.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=e5eb714cb4b43bc5eaa85c06250f7c0f\" title=\"Twitter\u2019s mass layoffs, days before US midterms, could be a misinformation disaster\" \/>Internal chaos at the company \u2013 and the decimation of its staff \u2013 has created ideal conditions for falsehoods and hateful content<br \/>\nThe mass layoffs at Twitter that diminished several teams, including staff on the company\u2019s safety and misinformation teams, could spell disaster during the US midterm elections next week, experts have warned.<br \/>\nThe company has laid off around 50% of its workforce, according to news reports; a figure that Musk and others have not disputed, amounting to an estimated 3,700 people. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internal chaos at the company \u2013 and the decimation of its staff \u2013 has created ideal conditions for falsehoods and hateful content The mass layoffs at Twitter that diminished several teams, including staff on the company\u2019s safety and misinformation teams, could spell disaster during the US midterm elections next week, experts have warned. The company &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/05\/twitters-mass-layoffs-days-before-us-midterms-could-be-a-misinformation-disaster\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Twitter\u2019s mass layoffs, days before US midterms, could be a misinformation disaster<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7695"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}