remaining 3700 employees offered to leave the company. part of the exodus included engineers in charge of multiple, critical systems. that number had been reduced to one maybe even zero, according to the washington post. purely after, this threat of insults calling musk names like supreme parasite and bankruptcy baby, where projected onto the walls of twitter headquarters. musk however is seemingly unfazed, and instead of fixing the problems, he is just stirring the pot. last night he tweeted out a poll, asking his followers whether donald trump s twitter account we should be reinstated, he already allowed the return of white ring pontotoc could tour jordan peterson. and the conservative satire say, the babylon bee. despite previously being banned for violating twitter s hateful comment policies. this comes as several dak mcatee congregators to whether the company violated any consumer protection laws, or any of those data security
he s got that consent order with the ftc, and now congress is looking into his business. so, both current and former ftc officials i ve talked to say that elon musk should be very worried. twitter has been under a consent order with the ftc for more than a decade because of past alleged abuses of users data. when a company is under an order like this, it gives the ftc power to bring fines when it finds it violates, and again, twitter actually, earlier this year, already reached another settlement with the ftc. if twitter is found to be repeatedly violating the order, that is something that could introduce finds in the order of billions of dollars against the company, which is a big concern. i think one of the reasons why this is such a tricky and delicate effort for muskets because you have so many employees supporting the company with a lot of the concerns themselves. the ftc and federal regulators, when i look at the companies, often turn to those people to be sources of their
brought up a bid that, you might not see the crash right away, but as mark tries to overhaul the saints, and you don t have people in the institutional knowledge about how systems, work it s very possible that when you re that you could end up breaking something. you know cat, musk could ve hauled a group of engineers who actually wrote the software to come back to twitter headquarters yesterday, and overnight he tweeted that the group wrapped that code meeting and he said that they will return on saturday morning. it seems to me that his focus is on the engineers, on the infrastructure. but he s also reinstating bans accounts. whatever happened to that moderation council he said that he was going to appoint to ensure that there was actual content moderation happening there? we haven t heard more about their counsel, and based on the latest numbers, we heard that perhaps that half of the trust and cvt which is the team that develops the policies around content moderation, and kee
commitments. technology reporter for the washington post, cat microscopy joins me now to sort through this chaos. cat, welcome back to the katie phang, show had to have you on because twitter is in a full meltdown, it seems like elon musk s strategy is to frankly, pro trump twitter anyone that is disagreeing with him. with over 1000 employees altering out of the ultimatum, does he have enough right yes men left to keep twitter up and running? it is a big question, and these departures are coming right before the world cup. which is typically one of the most popular times for people to log on to twitter. so talking to some current and former employees. there really is a concern about whether the site might experience allergists over the next week as people log on to talk about the games, there is also just a raw concern about the ability to keep twitters safe running as mask tries to make major changes to the path for him. one former employee i talked to,
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