parent Meta announced its largest ever large-scale redundancies this week. An eye-watering 11,000 staff are being let go. Add that to around 4,000 Twitter workers that Elon Musk is letting go and you’ve got a very swollen tech labor market all of a sudden. Not the most festive news as we head towards the holiday season.
Read my report New ‘Chief Twit’ Elon Musk’s plan to charge users for their much-valued Blue-Checks — effectively allowing anyone with $8 a month to spare to become verified — began to predictable chaos this week. Many were already migrating over to emerging social site Mastodon , but ultra-free speech proponent Musk is convinced this is one way the platform can use to make much needed money.