workforce of 8,000 might be reduced by as much as half. many twitter staff have been finding out via email that they no longer have a job. here s our technology editor zoe kleinman. elon musk did not speak to any of the thousands of 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 by an email to the personal accounts that it was the 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 uncertainty. a mixed range of emotions, certainly upset, certainly frustrating, certainly some angen frustrating, certainly some anger. also in some cases some relief, right? because this was a thing that played out over the course of the majority of this year. there were, understandably, lots of emotional tweets. another said. for others it was simply by. elon musk ma
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hello and a very warm 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. here s our technology editor zoe kleinman. elon musk did not speak to any of the thousands of 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 by an email to the 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 uncertainty. a mixed range of emotions, certainly upset, certa
information spoke to us injuly about cuts to local television news and he joins us again to discuss these plans for local radio. greatersharing discuss these plans for local radio. greater sharing across regions. won t that destroy the connection of audiences to their local station? we connection of audiences to their local station? we plan to kee all their local station? we plan to keep all our their local station? we plan to keep all our local their local station? we plan to keep all our local stations, - keep all our local stations, all 39 local stations completely local between 6am and 2pm when most listeners tune in. during the rest of the afternoon, ratherthan tune in. during the rest of the afternoon, rather than 39 programmes we will have 18 programmes we will have 18 programmes across england, still much more local than the local television news services. some of the bigger stations will keep their local services in the afternoon and then the smaller stations will