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This is what the congressman wrote to twitter, this seems to be a violation of the first amendment principles. i say this as a total biden partisan. anyone looking at it earnestly and honestly is recognizing there was a target in its policy wide arbitrary attempt to suppress political opponents. i tend to think there was a hive mentality in that everyone took the spaces where they were and leveraged the power and control they had to suppress stories they didnt like whether it is government insti...

What are the implications of firing half of your staff, 3500 people, late before the midterms? >> hey sam, thanks for having me, so, i think you are really saying it all. but i will say that twitter and musk and his head of safety and trust, all say that our policies havent changed and we are still the same here, but inside twitter, the people who were laid off in the people who remain there tell a vastly different story. they say that a lot of that in a lot of the people of teams that were dedi...

Not return a request for comment. we have more on twitter and cutting 75% of the work force and now he said no im not going to do, it is 25%, and talk to us about the scope and more importantly what it means and people will lose their jobs and change the way twitter looks? >> thank you for having me. thats right. and so musk and his team have been looking at twitter, and theyre basically in an assessment mode, and trying to figure out what they have inherited here, and what personnel moves they ...

Simulations in each one of them, the justices, one of them pointed out, the number of black students went down every single one of these, to really the people in favor of affirmative action, it could mean you dont have as much diversity especially for a group of people including african americans whose ancestors at times barred from the university and not that they couldnt get in or not good enough but they couldnt get in because of the color of their skin. >> live for us on the step was supreme...

The senior staff were called in to the san francisco offices over the weekend, and it looks like theyre in new york, touring those offices, and holding meetings today. so it remains to be seen how they go through with these plans. but certainly, it can have a big effect on the platform in terms of content moderation, and just in terms of the basic offerings of twitter and the ability to run its service, especially as you look for the higher numbers. >> youre right, there is this, what is so inte...

Sense, if thats at all possible, as to what this platform, which it is not used by everybody in america, just a small percentage, but it still has some influence, what fitter looks like with him in charge? >> yes, i mean on the last point, its a highly influential platform that pushes above its weight in terms of world leaders who are on there, and other influential voices, and of course, the media, and so what we should be looking at and what were interested in, is exactly what you said, like w...

Employees have long joked that “Twitter is the company that can’t kill itself.” This week, it seemed to be trying harder than ever. With Elon Musk turning on Jack Dorsey and a celebrated whistleblower due to testify before Congress, how long can CEO Parag Agrawal hold on?

Fired by twitter in january of this year after he tried to raise the alarm internally. he points the finger at twitters ceo saying has worked to hide twitter security vulnerabilities from the board. >> i suspect twitter might try to paint it like this, that mudge got fired and hes trying to retaliate against the company. >> absolutely not. this is not any kind of personal issue for him. he was eventually fired in january of this year. but he hasnt given up on trying to do that job. >> reporter: ...

National security and democracy. >> twitter is a critical resource to the entire world. i think it is an extremely important platform. >> reporter: he handed over information about the company to various u.s. law enforcement agencies, the fcc, the ftc and the department of justice. >> may i ask your name. >> mudge. >> reporter: zatko is better known in the hacking world by his nickname mudge. hes been a renowned cybersecurity expert for decades. >> his roots are in hacking, figuring out how comp...