Over 100 Twitter employees layed off from Slack for not responding to Elon Musk’s email

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Musk sent an email asking his staffers to sign a pledge about now sharing information related to Twitter with the media. The email was sent over the weekend.

  • Musk sent an email to his employees asking them to sign the pledge agreeing not to leak any information related to the company to media.
  • Some employees did not respond to the pledge because they missed checking their emails over the weekend.
  • As a result of which, more than 100 employees lost access to Slack on Sunday.

Twitter’s new chief, Elon Musk, does not want his employees to interact with the media. He has in fact threatened to sue employees who leak confidential information to the press. Musk sent an email asking his staffers to sign a pledge about now sharing information related to Twitter with the media. However, the email was sent on a Saturday, which was a holiday for most employees, as a result of which, they failed to check his email and missed the deadline for signing the pledge. This did not go down well with Musk and he revoked their access to the company’s official messaging app Slack.

As per Platformer, Musk sent an email to his employees asking them to sign the pledge agreeing not to leak any information related to the company to media and to abide by non-disclosure agreements they signed when they joined the company. He also mentioned in the mail that the company would sue workers who leak information despite signing the pledge.

“As evidenced by the many detailed leaks of confidential Twitter information, a few people at our company continue to act in a manner contrary to the company’s interests and in violation of their NDA. This will be said only once: If you clearly and deliberately violate the NDA that you signed when you joined, you accept liability to the full extent of the law & Twitter will immediately seek damages,” Musk’s mail obtained by Zoe Schiffer read. Musk also added that occasional slip ups are understandable “but breaking your word by sending detailed info to the media” with the intent to harm Twitter “will receive the response it deserves.” The employees were supposed to sign the pledge by 5PM on December 10.

Twitter Inc on Thursday suspended the accounts of several journalists, including ones from the New York Times and the Washington Post, with the site showing “account suspended” notices for them.
Reuters could not immediately ascertain why those accounts were suspended. All the suspended reporters have in recent months written about Twitter’s owner, billionaire Elon Musk, and changes at the platform since he bought it.

Responding to a Tweet on the account suspensions, Musk tweeted: “Same doxxing rules apply to “journalists” as to everyone else,” a reference to Twitter rules banning sharing of personal information, called doxxing.

He added: “Criticizing me all day long is totally fine, but doxxing my real-time location and endangering my family is not.”

Elon Musk Says- Criticizing me all day long is totally fine, but doxxing my real-time location and endangering my family is not.” Bans many Journalists’ Handles

Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

On Thursday, Twitter suspended an account tracking Musk’s private jet in real time, a month after he said his commitment to free speech extended to not banning the account

The accounts of Times reporter Ryan Mac (@rmac18), Post reporter Drew Harwell (@drewharwell), CNN reporter Donie O’Sullivan (@donie), and Mashable reporter Matt Binder @MattBinder were suspended. The account of independent journalist Aaron Rupar (@atrupar), who covers U.S. policy and politics, was also suspended.

A spokesperson for The New York Times said: “Tonight’s suspension of the Twitter accounts of a number of prominent journalists, including The New York Times’s Ryan Mac, is questionable and unfortunate. Neither The Times nor Ryan have received any explanation about why this occurred. We hope that all of the journalists’ accounts are reinstated and that Twitter provides a satisfying explanation for this action.”

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