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Une semaine après avoir été racheté par Elon Musk, Twitter a entrepris de licencier la moitié de ses effectifs, tout en lançant des projets d’envergure et en bataillant face aux utilisateurs, annonceurs et associations inquiets…
Une semaine après avoir été racheté par Elon Musk, Twitter a entrepris de licencier la moitié de ses effectifs, tout en lançant des projets d’envergure et en bataillant face aux utilisateurs, annonceurs et associations inquiets de la transformation de l’influent réseau social.
“Environ 50% du personnel va être affecté” par les licenciements en cours au sein de Twitter, d’après un document envoyé aux employés du réseau social qui ont été remerciés vendredi et consulté par l’AFP.
L’entreprise californienne, qui comptait près de 7.500 salariés fin octobre, a notifié des milliers de personnes par couriel et annoncé la fermeture temporaire de ses bureaux.
“Comme annoncé plus tôt aujourd’hui, Twitter réduit ses effectifs pour aider à améliorer la santé de l’entreprise. Ces décisions ne sont jamais faciles et c’est avec regret que nous vous écrivons pour vous informer que votre poste à Twitter est concerné. Aujourd’hui est votre dernier jour de travail (…)”, indique l’un de ces courriels, consulté par l’AFP.
Jeudi soir, Twitter a écrit à tous ses salariés pour les prévenir des licenciements à venir, leur précisant que les bureaux seraient “temporairement fermés” et les accès par badge “suspendus”, afin “d’assurer la sécurité de chaque employé ainsi que celle des systèmes et des données de Twitter”.
Dès jeudi dernier, quand Elon Musk a pris le contrôle de l’entreprise, il avait dissous le conseil d’administration, congédié les dirigeants, pris le poste de directeur général et sorti la société de la Bourse.
Peu après l’annonce des licenciements, des employés de Twitter se sont exprimés sur le réseau social pour annoncer la suppression de leur poste, parfois à l’aide des hashtags #LoveWhereYouWork (Aime ton lieu de travail) et #OneTeam (Une seule équipe).
“Toutes mes pensées, mon respect, mon énergie et mon amour aux tweeps (surnom des employés de Twitter, NDLR) du monde entier aujourd’hui. Nous avons construit ensemble l’application la plus incroyable de la planète”, a par exemple écrit vendredi Damien Viel, le directeur général de Twitter France.
Dans la nuit de jeudi à vendredi, cinq employés de Twitter tout juste remerciés ont déposé un recours collectif contre l’entreprise au motif qu’ils n’avaient pas reçu le délai de préavis de 60 jours requis par la loi américaine en cas de licenciements massifs (Warn Act), selon le texte de la plainte consulté par l’AFP.
Les managers, et les départements du marketing et du design semblent particulièrement affectés, d’après un salarié qui a souhaité rester anonyme.
Elon Musk, qui s’est d’abord rebaptisé “Chief Twit” (“twit” voulant dire “crétin” en anglais), puis “standardiste de la hotline de Twitter”, a fait venir dès vendredi des développeurs de Tesla pour passer en revue le travail d’employés de Twitter.
Il a aussi lancé la refonte de plusieurs produits, dont l’abonnement payant et le système de vérification de l’authenticité des comptes, et imposé une cadence soutenue. Plusieurs ingénieurs ont dormi au bureau certains soirs.
Le changement de culture d’entreprise se confirme donc – plusieurs cadres ont démissionné d’eux-mêmes cette semaine et plus de 700 personnes sont déjà parties cet été, de leur plein gré, d’après un salarié.
“Nous assistons à la destruction en temps réel de l’un des systèmes de communication les plus puissants au monde. Elon Musk est un milliardaire imprévisible et incohérent, Il représente un danger pour cette plateforme qu’il n’est pas qualifié à diriger”, a réagi Nicole Gill, cofondatrice de Accountable Tech, une des ONG qui ont appelé les annonceurs à faire pression sur le nouveau patron.
Car l’entrepreneur libertarien prône une vision de la liberté d’expression qui nécessite d’assouplir les règles de modération des contenus de la plateforme, risquant, selon ses critiques, d’ouvrir la porte à un regain d’abus (harcèlement, discours haineux, désinformation…).
Plusieurs groupes ont déjà décidé de suspendre leurs dépenses publicitaires sur Twitter, dont le géant américain de l’agro-industrie General Mills, le constructeur automobile américain General Motors et son concurrent allemand Volkswagen.
Vendredi, M. Musk a imputé la chute des revenus de Twitter à “un groupes de militants ayant fait pression sur les annonceurs alors même que rien n’a changé avec la modération des contenus et que nous avons tout fait pour apaiser les militants”.
“C’est vraiment n’importe quoi! Ils essaient de détruire la liberté d’expression en Amérique”, a ajouté le bouillonnant quinquagénaire.
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Racheté par Elon Musk la semaine dernière, Twitter a entamé vendredi une vague mondiale de licenciements, qui pourrait voir sa masse salariale divisée par deux
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Elon Musk, nouveau dirigeant de Twitter, a prévu de remercier environ 50% des quelque 7.500 employés
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The Ministry of Health & Wellness says it has received a report of the discovery of a deceased foetus in the sewer at the Kingston Public Hospital.
The ministry made the disclosure late Thursday in a release.
According to preliminary information, the foetus was discovered by a man cleaning the sewer underneath the basement of the hospital.
The health ministry said the matter has been reported to the police, and investigations are now underway.
In a judgment delivered on October 25, 2022 in connection with financial ancillaries for divorce proceedings, it was noted that a Caymanian banker argued that the amount awarded to her husband (who ha
The Ministry of Health & Wellness says it has received a report of the discovery of a deceased foetus in the sewer at the Kingston Public Hospital.
The ministry made the disclosure late T
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Two women were robbed hours apart between Wednesday night and Thursday morning, raising questions about whether females are targeted because they may make easy victims.
The first robbery occurred a
The Royal Turks and Caicos Police Force has denied that it did not respond in a timely manner to reports of gunshots near the scene of a triple murder that occurred in Dock Yard earlier this week.
Yesterday (November 2), the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System voted unanimously to approve a 3/4 percentage point increase in the primary credit rate to 4 per cent, effective November 3
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Name changes can come as a surprise to some people, especially when it comes to schools.
Take for instance the case of St James High.
This institution has been through the wringer over the years evolving through various titles: Montego Bay Senior School (1961), Montego Bay Junior Secondary, Montego Bay Junior High, Montego Bay Comprehensive, Montego Bay Secondary, until (drum roll please) … St James High.
Sometimes name changes are done to reflect a change in mandate, and to show gravitas. This topic was quite controversial and newsworthy in 1896 when the long-established College of New Jersey in the US changed its name to Princeton University. At the time, everyone hated the new name.
Locally, many schools have changed names from “college” to “university” or have been renamed for prominent individuals.
Sometimes, institutions are renamed because they were formed by the merger of multiple institutions. Take the case of CASE – the College of Agriculture Science and Education.
In 1942, the Government Farm school was renamed the Jamaica School of Agriculture (JSA) and in 1957 relocated to Twickenham Park, Spanish Town. In 1981, The College of Agriculture (COA), located at Passley Gardens, Portland, was established as the replacement institution for the JSA. The College of Agriculture Scheme Order of 1981 gave birth to the new institution with a new mandate.
In 1995, based on a recommendation of the Sherlock Report, the COA and PGTC merged to form the College of Agriculture Science and Education (CASE). Unlike its predecessor institutions which focused primarily on agriculture, CASE is a multidisciplinary institution offering professional training at the Diploma, Associate Degree and Bachelor’s Degree levels in Agriculture, Natural Sciences, Environmental Management, Business Management, Hospitality and Tourism Management and Teacher Education.
In May 2015, Balaclava High School in St Elizabeth was renamed Roger Clarke High in honour of the former member of parliament, who died in 2014.
In 2015, yet another high school was renamed this month for a politician. This time, it was the Islington High School, situated in Central St Mary, which was rechristened the Horace Clarke High School.
The Portia Simpson Miller-chaired Cabinet approved the renaming of the school in honour of former government minister Horace Clarke.
Several schools across the island have been named for politicians namely: Norman Manley, Sydney Pagon, Alexander Bustamante, Aabuthnott Gallimore, Robert Lightbourne, Edwin Allen, Howard Cooke, and Edith Dalton James.
In June 2018, the Bog Walk High School in St Catherine has renamed the Enid Bennett High School in honour of the late former state minister. Bennett was instrumental in the establishment of the institution and she played a key role in securing the funds and land for the construction of the school, along with Tacius Golding High School and Lucky Valley Primary School in the 1970s under the ‘New Deal in Education’. project.
In December 2019, the Spalding High School was renamed in honour of former principal Alphansus Davis, who served the 46-year-old institution for 31 years. During Davis’ tenure at the helm, a number of achievements were recorded.
Also in 2019, the Brimmer Vale High School, in St Mary, was renamed the Wycliffe Martin High School. Martin became Member of Parliament for St Mary Central in 1962 and was said to have made significant contributions to the development of the constituency and the parish.
In 2021, both the Denham Town Primary School and Denham Town Infant School, located in West Kingston, were officially renamed in honour of the late former Prime Minister and Member of Parliament for the area, Edward Seaga. The schools are now the Edward Seaga Primary School and Edward Seaga Infant School.
The parish of St Ann has paid tribute to the reggae icon Bob Marley by renaming the Stepney Primary and Junior High School Bob Marley Primary and Junior High School in 2013.
The University of Technology (UTech) started off academic life in 1958, initially as the Jamaica Institute of Technology. In 1959 the name of the institution was changed to the College of Arts, Science and Technology and it became incorporated in the College of Arts, Science and Technology (CAST) Scheme of 1959. This was validated by an Act of Parliament in 1964. In 1986, the CAST Scheme was revised in order to make the College a degree-granting institution, and the College became legally empowered to conduct its affairs under a governing Council and Academic Board.
The institution was formally accorded university status on September 1, 1995, as the University of Technology, Jamaica. The University of Technology, Jamaica Act 27 – 1999, which makes permanent provisions for the establishment of the University of Technology, Jamaica, was approved by Parliament on June 8, 1999, and signed into law by the Governor General on June 29, 1999.
So we end by saying, what’s in a name?
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Finding ways to urgently increase access to affordable and adequate financing for climate action for the Caribbean will be the priority for Caribbean partners at the world’s foremost climate change conference, COP 27.
COP 27 or the 27th Meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) Conference of Parties, gets started next week in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, running from November 6 to November 18.
Ahead of the meeting, regional stakeholders are preparing their pitch and push to get the Caribbean the financing required to adapt to the impacts of climate change which are already a lived reality for the people of the Region.
On November 9, which is Finance Day at COP, the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) and the Organisation for Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Commission will jointly host a side event to draw attention to the challenges of climate change in the Caribbean and propose associated solutions.
The event is a panel discussion titled ‘Aligning Climate Finance Flows with Caribbean Countries’ Climate Resilience Needs’.
CDB President Dr Gene Leon, who will deliver the keynote address at the panel, explained the reason underpinning the discussion – the urgency of the challenges for the Region which is already facing severe climate change impacts such as stronger and more frequent hurricanes, droughts and flooding.
“For us in the Caribbean, climate change is not theoretical or in the future, it is existential, and it is now. And the hard facts are that right now, the financing we receive is not adequate for the scale of the problem. Simply put – currently the challenges are too big, and the money is too small to make the changes we need to effect to be able to survive climate change.”
The panel will focus specifically on the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) on climate finance. Launched at COP 26 in Glasgow last year, the NCQG is a two-year work programme which will produce recommendations for the post-2025 climate finance goal – which will be the successor to the current USD$100 billion per year commitment reinforced through the landmark Paris Agreement in 2015.
Discussions at the panel will explore how the NCQG is an opportunity to address some of the key constraints that have stymied climate finance to the Region and look at how it can better respond to Caribbean countries’ needs.
Speakers include Trinidad and Tobago’s Minister of Planning and Development, Hon. Pennelope Beckles, Chief Climate Change Expert at the European Investment Bank, Nancy Saich, CDB’s Vice-President (Operations) Isaac Solomon and Ambassador Jeanine Felson, Senior Advisor on Climate Matters to the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) and CARICOM.
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THA SECRETARY of Tourism, Culture, Antiquities and Transportation Tashia Burris says the THA is looking to use its artistes to create content to market Tobago in the future.
At the post-executive council media briefing on Thursday, Burris said the recent October carnival highlighted the talents of the island’s creatives.
“I must give special kudos to the creatives, because this carnival unearthed a lot of talent in the space, and I think persons have seen the content that has come out,” she said.
“When you see how our creatives have come to the fore, it means that we have been doing ourselves a disservice in the tourism sector from a government standpoint, because we have been expending tonnes of money to foreign companies to create content to market Tobago, when we have our home-grown creatives who can more than get the job done.”
So, she said, “The policy shift now for us is to spend that money locally on the talent that is residing here, because they are now able to be the best reflections or the best ambassadors for the greatest little island on the planet. Who better to sell your island than a Tobagonian?”
Burris said in the days before the carnival, several surveys were done in conjunction with the Central Statistical Office (CSO) and Tourism Trinidad Ltd (TTL).
The CSO and TTL, she said, polled visitors who came into the country at Piarco Airport and the ANR Robinson Airport.
Burris said the information gleaned from these polls would be used to plan a bigger and better festival for visitors in 2023.
“Part of the information that would come from those surveys would be what the economic benefit of the carnival would be, because I think we continue to have to justify the investment to some people who may not be aware of everything that goes into planning, executing and understanding that for every dollar we spend on the carnival, it brought back $10 in terms of somebody coming into the space and spending their money in Tobago. “That money is staying in Tobago. It is not leaving and going anywhere else. That money is residing within our economy in Tobago.”
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AFTER recovering six stolen vehicles this week, police are advising drivers on ways to secure their vehicle.
In a media release on Friday, police said drivers should never leave keys in the ignition, even at gas stations; always keep vehicles locked; park with care, preferably in well-lit areas and near CCTV cameras; and instal a professionally-fitted car alarm or approved mobiliser.
The release said North Eastern Division officers, acting on information, found the stolen vehicles at different locations.
They included four Nissan vehicles: a B14, B15, Tiida and Xtrail. Police also recovered a Toyota Aqua and a Kia Cerato.
The vehicles were found between 11 pm on October 30 and 9.30 pm on November 1.
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NATIONAL Transformation Alliance (NTA) leader Gary Griffith said the Government had postponed the local government elections because it faced certain decimation, in a statement to Newsday on Friday.
On Thursday Minister of Rural Development and Local Government Faris Al-Rawi made a surprise announcement of a one-year extension to the term of sitting councillors, to facilitate local government reforms.
In reactions on Friday, opposition parties did not buy that argument.
Asked for his reaction to the delay, Griffith described it as “unfortunate, but not surprising.”
He said, “If you are facing a battle and know that you will be annihilated, why walk into the valley of death to be massacred?
“Instead they have drawn a hasty retreat to delay the inevitable as a devastating defeat in local government election would have made it virtually ungovernable for them as it would be clear signs of the beginning of the end.”
Griffith said the delay exposed flaws in the Trinidad and Tobago Constitution.
“A government that knows they would be destroyed in the second most significant election in our country, has the power to delay it.
“This cannot be a democratic process.”
Progressive Empowerment Party (PEP) leader Phillip Edward Alexander said the postponement was “a clear admission of fear of the inevitable.”
He said local government elections were widely used as a litmus test of a government’s popularity.
“With the collapse of almost every ministry and no jokers left in the pack to shuffle, the Prime Minister is left with no alternative but to play political hide and seek and pray for a miracle.
“The problem for the PNM is the citizens are themselves praying for their own miracle, the removal of this failed and incompetent government from any office of state or corridor of power.”
The Opposition UNC’s Khadijah Ameen, St Augustine MP and shadow minister of local government, said in a statement the Government must not run and hide, but call elections now.
She accused Al-Rawi of fumbling and bumbling at his news conference in explaining the reasons for the delay in local government elections.
“It is no secret that the Government is very unpopular with the electorate at this time.
“The rise in crime, poverty, joblessness and hardship alongside massive blatant corruption and nepotism has created a sense of injustice with citizens waiting to use their democratic power to vote against the PNM.”
She said the PNM did not want to face the electorate now, as it could lose several seats and even regional corporations to UNC.
“Quite simply if they call the elections now, they know they will lose.”
Ameen said the postponement of elections for alleged political expediency signalled “a dark day for democracy” and “a sign of a creeping dictatorship.”
“It is not too late for PNM to call the local government elections when the term comes to an end on December 2.
“It is unacceptable for Prime Minister Rowley to run and hide from the population. I therefore call on the Prime Minister to preserve democracy, do the honourable thing by calling the elections now and face the consequences, good, bad or indifferent.”
Former prime minister the late Patrick Manning delayed local government elections in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. The elections were ultimately held in 2010 after Kamla Persad-Bissessar became PM.
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With more Barbadian families requiring charitable assistance, locals are being urged to help the Salvation Army reach its target of $750, 000 this Christmas.
Chairman of the Salvation Army Advisory Board, Paul Bernstein mentioned the increased demand for the charity’s services during the launch of the Christmas Kettle Appeal today at Heroes Square.
“We have a lot to do and we need your support to do it. Our target this year is $750, 000 and we hope with your generosity to exceed that amount. I am making a special appeal to the business community, especially the manufacturers and retailers to please support this worthy cause. And, let me assure you once again that the Salvation Army uses 85 cents in every dollar received to provide direct services to people in need,” Bernstein said.
The Salvation Army chairman disclosed that from January to the end of September, 212 persons received educational books, 100 families received back-to-school assistance, 46 persons received household furnishings, 1,870 received clothing, 5,300 people food hampers and 32, 456 hot meals were served through the charity’s Feeding Programme.
During Christmas, the charity will be donating 4,000 food hampers to families in need and also delivering Christmas gifts to children’s homes, senior citizens and the less fortunate.
“We are hopefully approaching the end of this serious COVID-19 pandemic which unfortunately has caused major hardship within our community and by extension has put more financial pressure on us as we try as much as possible to assist all of those in need.”
Deputy permanent secretary of the Ministry of People Empowerment and Elder Affairs, Mark Franklin also attended the launch and shared that the Ministry recognised a spike in clientele at the Welfare Department.
“We are all aware of the challenges confronting our economy and indeed our society as a whole. We all feel the effects of rising food and gas prices and have all witnessed the reverse impact that recently occurring disasters such as the 2021 freak storm and Hurricane Elsa, have had on already vulnerable households. Collectively, these challenges are resulting in an increased number of families experiencing difficulty in making ends meet and that are having to access services of organisations like yours.
Like the Salvation Army, we at the Ministry have seen significant uptakes in both individuals and households needing various types of assistance especially grants that are provided to social agencies like the Welfare Department,” Franklin indicated.
He suggested that collaboration between charities was pertinent towards empowering vulnerable families and lauded the Salvation Army for their continued support, especially during the pandemic. He called for assistance in the Ministry’s 1000 families initiative which aims to help impoverished families.
Franklin also recommended that NGOs partner with the Ministry to further discuss disaster management and address the “needs of as many people as possible”.
“We must continue to partner with each other in order to reach and address the needs of as many persons as possible. Cooperation and collaboration in disaster management is an area that we further need to explore
I do hope within the short term we can meet to further discuss and develop appropriate response plans for how we can help vulnerable persons in the event that we are impacted by another national disaster,” he continued.
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Une semaine après avoir été racheté par Elon Musk, Twitter a entrepris de licencier la moitié de ses effectifs, tout en lançant des projets d’envergure et en bataillant face aux utilisateurs, annonceurs et associations inquiets…
Une semaine après avoir été racheté par Elon Musk, Twitter a entrepris de licencier la moitié de ses effectifs, tout en lançant des projets d’envergure et en bataillant face aux utilisateurs, annonceurs et associations inquiets de la transformation de l’influent réseau social.
“Environ 50% du personnel va être affecté” par les licenciements en cours au sein de Twitter, d’après un document envoyé aux employés du réseau social qui ont été remerciés vendredi et consulté par l’AFP.
L’entreprise californienne, qui comptait près de 7.500 salariés fin octobre, a notifié des milliers de personnes par couriel et annoncé la fermeture temporaire de ses bureaux.
“Comme annoncé plus tôt aujourd’hui, Twitter réduit ses effectifs pour aider à améliorer la santé de l’entreprise. Ces décisions ne sont jamais faciles et c’est avec regret que nous vous écrivons pour vous informer que votre poste à Twitter est concerné. Aujourd’hui est votre dernier jour de travail (…)”, indique l’un de ces courriels, consulté par l’AFP.
Jeudi soir, Twitter a écrit à tous ses salariés pour les prévenir des licenciements à venir, leur précisant que les bureaux seraient “temporairement fermés” et les accès par badge “suspendus”, afin “d’assurer la sécurité de chaque employé ainsi que celle des systèmes et des données de Twitter”.
Dès jeudi dernier, quand Elon Musk a pris le contrôle de l’entreprise, il avait dissous le conseil d’administration, congédié les dirigeants, pris le poste de directeur général et sorti la société de la Bourse.
Peu après l’annonce des licenciements, des employés de Twitter se sont exprimés sur le réseau social pour annoncer la suppression de leur poste, parfois à l’aide des hashtags #LoveWhereYouWork (Aime ton lieu de travail) et #OneTeam (Une seule équipe).
“Toutes mes pensées, mon respect, mon énergie et mon amour aux tweeps (surnom des employés de Twitter, NDLR) du monde entier aujourd’hui. Nous avons construit ensemble l’application la plus incroyable de la planète”, a par exemple écrit vendredi Damien Viel, le directeur général de Twitter France.
Dans la nuit de jeudi à vendredi, cinq employés de Twitter tout juste remerciés ont déposé un recours collectif contre l’entreprise au motif qu’ils n’avaient pas reçu le délai de préavis de 60 jours requis par la loi américaine en cas de licenciements massifs (Warn Act), selon le texte de la plainte consulté par l’AFP.
Les managers, et les départements du marketing et du design semblent particulièrement affectés, d’après un salarié qui a souhaité rester anonyme.
Elon Musk, qui s’est d’abord rebaptisé “Chief Twit” (“twit” voulant dire “crétin” en anglais), puis “standardiste de la hotline de Twitter”, a fait venir dès vendredi des développeurs de Tesla pour passer en revue le travail d’employés de Twitter.
Il a aussi lancé la refonte de plusieurs produits, dont l’abonnement payant et le système de vérification de l’authenticité des comptes, et imposé une cadence soutenue. Plusieurs ingénieurs ont dormi au bureau certains soirs.
Le changement de culture d’entreprise se confirme donc – plusieurs cadres ont démissionné d’eux-mêmes cette semaine et plus de 700 personnes sont déjà parties cet été, de leur plein gré, d’après un salarié.
“Nous assistons à la destruction en temps réel de l’un des systèmes de communication les plus puissants au monde. Elon Musk est un milliardaire imprévisible et incohérent, Il représente un danger pour cette plateforme qu’il n’est pas qualifié à diriger”, a réagi Nicole Gill, cofondatrice de Accountable Tech, une des ONG qui ont appelé les annonceurs à faire pression sur le nouveau patron.
Car l’entrepreneur libertarien prône une vision de la liberté d’expression qui nécessite d’assouplir les règles de modération des contenus de la plateforme, risquant, selon ses critiques, d’ouvrir la porte à un regain d’abus (harcèlement, discours haineux, désinformation…).
Plusieurs groupes ont déjà décidé de suspendre leurs dépenses publicitaires sur Twitter, dont le géant américain de l’agro-industrie General Mills, le constructeur automobile américain General Motors et son concurrent allemand Volkswagen.
Vendredi, M. Musk a imputé la chute des revenus de Twitter à “un groupes de militants ayant fait pression sur les annonceurs alors même que rien n’a changé avec la modération des contenus et que nous avons tout fait pour apaiser les militants”.
“C’est vraiment n’importe quoi! Ils essaient de détruire la liberté d’expression en Amérique”, a ajouté le bouillonnant quinquagénaire.
juj/els/LyS
Racheté par Elon Musk la semaine dernière, Twitter a entamé vendredi une vague mondiale de licenciements, qui pourrait voir sa masse salariale divisée par deux
• Constanza HEVIA
Elon Musk, nouveau dirigeant de Twitter, a prévu de remercier environ 50% des quelque 7.500 employés
• OLIVIER DOULIERY
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