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X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, has slashed the number of people on its disinformation and election integrity team just weeks after it said it was hiring for new positions to help it guard against foreign interference.

The cuts, first reported by the tech-focused media outlet The Information, included Aaron Rodericks, the head of the team, said a person familiar with the situation who spoke on the condition of anonymity out of concerns about professional consequences.

The person familiar with the cuts said four people had been let go — the entirety of X's election integrity unit in its Dublin office. It's unclear how many people remain on the team.

X did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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[–] Th4tGuyII@kbin.social 35 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It's odd. I still remember the days of memes labelling Twitter as the home of left-leaning activists, but now it's slowly becoming just a better funded truth social

[–] grue@lemmy.world 57 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's what happens when it gets bought by a fascist.

[–] orrk@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

ho... how... HOW DARE YOU CALL OUR LORD AND SAVIOR ELON MUSK A FASCIST!? HE IS GOING TO SAVE HUMANITY BY CREATING THE EMP-X-IRE ON MARS!

[–] timmy_dean_sausage@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Amazing! Can't wait for him and all his chronies to fuck off to Mars. Such a selfless act to take out the trash like that!

[–] Maeve@kbin.social 0 points 11 months ago

Those liberals used Twitter traffic to lend aid to quash the Bahrain uprisings, iirc?