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Around 7,500 employees. now, at least half of them have been fired or chosen to leave, including lisa jennings young. she worked on features designed to protect users like me from online hate. thanks so much for having us. it was not at all perfect, but we were trying and we were making things better. one of these protective measures was a nudge function, to scan tweets and ask users if they wanted to reconsider posting something potentially abusive. twitter�*s own research, seen by the bbc, appears to show the nudge and other safety tools being effective. so overall, 60% of users deleted or...

Twitter�*s own research, seen by the bbc, appears to show the nudge and other safety tools being effective. so overall, 60% of users deleted or edited their reply when given a chance via the nudge. is it still happening? is there anyone working on it? no. there's no one there to work on that at this time. the nudge does still exist. but when lisa and i tried it out, it appeared to be working less consistently. no nudge. 0ne engineer still working at twitter agreed to speak anonymously about what's been unfolding on the inside. it's like a building where all the pieces are on fire. when you l...