As tumbleweeds blow by way of the empty halls and vacant workplace areas of Twitter headquarters, somehow, someplace, Elon Musk discovered much more folks to fireside.

The flailing social media firm laid off half of its remaining public coverage group this week, in response to LinkedIn and Twitter posts from former division worker, Theodora Skeadas, as first reported by Tech Crunch. Last Friday, the platform also cut further engineering workers chargeable for website infrastructure, in response to a report from The Information.

The public coverage group is/was chargeable for managing authorized and civil interactions concerning subjects like speech rights, privateness, and security. The group subject(ed) requests from governments and different organizations to average content material and set guidelines, in response to a report from Reuters.

Gizmodo reached out to each Skeadas and Twitter with questions in regards to the layoffs, however didn’t instantly obtain a response, and the entire variety of folks fired is unclear. However, the general public coverage group’s chief, Sinéad McSweeney additionally left the corporate this week, a number of unnamed sources reportedly instructed Reuters.

Since Musk’s hostile and chaotic takeover of the social media platform, the billionaire has minimize 1000’s of staff from the payroll. Then, he needed to rehire some. And then, Musk endeavored to make working at Twitter so disagreeable (learn: “hardcore”), that but extra give up.

When Musk’s company acquisition lastly went by way of on the finish of October, reviews surfaced that the Tesla CEO deliberate to scrap three quarters of the positioning’s workers. Though he denied these rumors, they’ve now come to fruition. Between quasi-voluntary departures and compelled exits, an estimated 75% of all of Twitter’s previously ~7,000 staff not work on the firm, in response to Tech Crunch. Next up on the chopping block? Probably the bluebird itself.

The platform’s engineering, moral AI, content material moderation, and now public coverage groups have all been hollowed out or outright dissolved. Last week, Twitter disbanded its Trust and Safety Council, which Skeadas was a pacesetter of. Even George Hotz, the infamous hacker who supplied his providers to Twitter at low price for 12-weeks, quit the site.

“The work still matters!,” Skeadas wrote in her prolonged LinkedIn submit concerning the layoffs. “I wish good fortune and strength to those who remain at Twitter.” But primarily based on how issues are going to this point: The few, the proud, the enduring Twitter workers are going to want greater than luck and resolve. They’re going to want a Christmas miracle.”