Contractors aren’t being notified at all, they’re just losing access to Slack and email. Managers figured it out when their workers just disappeared from the system.
They heard nothing from their leaders— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) November 13, 2022
Update: company sources tell me that yesterday Twitter eliminated ~4,400 of its ~5,500 contract employees, with cuts expected to have significant impact to content moderation and the core infrastructure services that keep the site up and running.
People inside are stunned.— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) November 13, 2022