The news on the front page of washington post this Friday, October 21, taken up by all of the international press, evokes “documents detailing plans for massive cuts in the workforce of Twitter”, that the daily of the capital consulted. The soap opera of the takeover of the social network by Elon Musk is thus experiencing its umpteenth rebound, while the deadline for finalizing the agreement is set for October 28.
According to the American daily, to convince potential investors who would help him buy the platform for 44 billion dollars, as he had promised in April, “Elon Musk said he plans to get rid of nearly 75% of Twitter’s 7,500 employees, reducing the company to a skeletal workforce of just over 2,000 people”.