Is ghosting an employee considered termination, legally? It seems me he could have just waited and sued for unpaid wages.
Or get publicly released from your NDA, then get set up for a couple of lawsuits for defamation and disclosure of private health information. I knew a little about this guy previously, but hadn't read the full backstory. He basically took wages in lieu of a cash payout for his company to *maximize* his tax burden. He did this because it was an efficient way for him to get money back into Iceland's public welfare system that had supported him for years. He also had the title of something like acquired founder which basically meant he had no responsibilities and couldn't be fired for 'doing no work', although most reports paint him as a productive innovator and leader in his organization.
Now that he's fired Twitter is on the hook for the balance of his payout, which could be near 100 million. That's before the public disclosure, defamation and wrongful termination suits. It must be huge, because the lawyers (or some remaining adult) at twitter actually got him to issue an apology pretty quick.
When bleary-eyed engineers began to log on to their laptops, the nature of the emergency became clear: Elon Muskâs tweet about the Super Bowl got less engagement than President Joe Bidenâs.
In the wake of those losses â the Eagles to the Kansas City Chiefs, and Musk to the president of the United States â Twitterâs CEO flew his private jet back to the Bay Area on Sunday night to demand answers from his team.
When bleary-eyed engineers began to log on to their laptops, the nature of the emergency became clear: Elon Muskâs tweet about the Super Bowl got less engagement than President Joe Bidenâs.
In the wake of those losses â the Eagles to the Kansas City Chiefs, and Musk to the president of the United States â Twitterâs CEO flew his private jet back to the Bay Area on Sunday night to demand answers from his team.
Twitterâs trust and safety team compiled a seven-page document outlining the dangers associated with paid verification. What would stop people from Âimpersonating politicians or brands? They ranked the risk a âP0,â the highest possible. But Musk and his team refused to take any recommendations that would delay the launch.
Twitter Blueâs paid verification system was unveiled on November 5. Almost immediately, fake verified accounts flooded the platform. An image of Mario giving the middle finger from what looked like the official Nintendo account stayed up for more than a day. An account masquerading as the drug manufacturer Eli Lilly tweeted that insulin would now be free; company executives begged Twitter to take down the tweet. The marketing team tried to do damage control. âYou build trust by being transparent, predictable, and thoughtful,â one former employee says. âWe were none of those with this launch.â
Days after the subscription service debuted, Twitter canned it. Yoel Roth, the head of the team whose warnings had been ignored, resigned. In an all-hands meeting, Musk vowed not to relaunch Twitter Blue until the company had gotten a handle on impersonators. (Shortly after he did, in mid-December, ostensibly with defenses in place, a columnist for the WashingtonPostmanaged to get a fake account for a U.S. senator verified.)
Muskâs blundering left a deep scar. ÂTwitter Blue was meant to begin shifting Twitterâs sales away from ads toward subscriptions. But while chasing a relatively paltry new cash stream, Musk torched the companyâs ad business â the source of the vast majority of its billions in revenue. The Blue disaster accelerated a rush of advertisers abandoning the platform, including Eli Lilly, and by December, what was left of Twitterâs sales team began offering hundreds of thousands of dollars in free ad spend to lure back Âmarketers. (It did not work.)
In a series of tweets, Musk blamed the companyâs âmassive drop in revenueâ on âactivist groups pressuring advertisers.â To Musk, it was anyoneâs fault but his own.
The removal of the feature, known as #ThereIsHelp, has not been previously reported. It had shown at the top of specific searches contacts for support organisations in many countries related to mental health, HIV, vaccines, child sexual exploitation, Covid19, gender-based violence, natural disasters and freedom of expression.
