Elon Musk has begun to slash Twitter’s 7,500-strong workforce because the social media platform’s new billionaire proprietor warned of a “massive drop in revenue” following his contentious $44bn buyout of the group.
As Musk embarks on the cost-cutting cull, he claimed on Friday that Twitter “has had a large drop in income, as a result of activist teams pressuring advertisers, despite the fact that nothing has modified with content material moderation and we did every part we may to appease the…