Elon Musk’s social media company X, formerly Twitter, is slashing greater than half of its team tasked with fighting misinformation tied to elections ahead of the 2024 presidential election, in line with a report.
X cut 4 election integrity staffers, including the team’s head, based in Ireland, UPI reported citing a report from The Information.
The social media platform’s executives told the team in Dublin that “having integrity employees based in Europe wasn’t essential,” the outlet reported, citing three people conversant in the matter.
The firings mean the team has been cut to lower than half in North America, the outlet reported.
Musk appeared to verify the report on X Wednesday.
“Oh you mean the ‘Election Integrity’ Team that was undermining election integrity? Yeah, they’re gone,” he tweeted.
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The corporate had about two dozen staffers dedicated to election integrity before Musk bought it for $44 billion last 12 months. Now, there reportedly is likely to be at most six staffers left.
The reduction comes after Musk signaled he would beef up the team. The Post previously reported there was a plan to grow X’s so-called “Trust and Safety” team to observe disinformation.
X CEO Linda Yaccarino also recently told the Financial Times the corporate was planning to expand its safety and election teams globally.
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X has also disabled a feature that allow users report misinformation about elections on the platform, a research organization said Wednesday, Reuters reported.
After first rolling out the feature in 2022 that allow accounts report a post they considered politically misleading, the app removed that category from its drop-down menu in every single place however the European Union, researcher Reset.Tech Australia said.
Other concerning posts about promoting violence or hate speech can still be reported, the researcher noted.
Musk has downsized X’s workforce by about 80% since he took over.