hello, welcome to the programme. elon musk has defended his decision to sack thousands of staff at twitter without warning. the world s richest man bought the social media platform last week. he tweeted that he was forced to make cuts because twitter was losing nearly $4 million a day. mr musk also attempted to allay concerns about the spread of hate speech, saying twitter s commitment to content moderation remained unchanged. but president biden has said the tycoon had bought an outfit that spewed lies across the world. many big firms have paused their advertising on twitter while uncertainty about its content controls remains. here s our technology editor zoe kleinman. elon musk did not speak to any of the thousands of twitter employees laid off today. instead, he was a surprise guest at this investor conference in new york. meanwhile, many twitter staff woke up locked out of their work laptops. they were later told via an email to their personal accounts that it was their
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he tweeted that he was forced to make cuts because twitter was losing nearly $4 million a day. mr musk also attempted to allay concerns about the spread of hate speech, saying twitter s commitment to content moderation remained unchanged. but president biden has said the tycoon has bought an outfit that spews lies across the world . many big firms have paused their advertising on twitter while uncertainty about its content controls remains. here s our technology editor zoe kleinman. elon musk did not speak to any of the thousands of twitter employees laid off today. instead, he was a surprise guest at this investor conference in new york. meanwhile, many twitter staff woke up locked out of their work laptops. they were later told via an email to their personal accounts that it was their last working day at the firm. some have been told they will be paid until february next year, getting some sort of certainty after months of speculation. a mixed range of emotions. certainly
after elon musk s takeover. and finally, the sun reports that former model and actress patsy kensit is set to join the cast of eastenders. so let s begin. thanks forjoining us. yasmin, front page of the financial times weekend, our top story, elon musk cutting a lot ofjobs and he has said it is unfortunate what has happened but that twitter is losing $4 million per day, that is the latest from the owner of twitter. does that justify cutting so manyjobs so quickly? he cutting so manyjobs so quickly? in? because he knew that, so why did he buy it? it is interesting because he is a maverick and what is happening is a maverick and what is happening is also, advertisers are getting extremely wary, partly because he has been re tweeting stuff that really does make people anxious, one of them apparently, allegedly was this thing that is raging across social media that the attack on nancy pelosi s husband, this horrible attack, was connected to homosexual activities and all these con