On the one hand, Musk has informed potential investors that he intends to lay off 75 percent of Twitter’s 7,500-person workforce following the conclusion of the acquisition, a move that would certainly cripple the site’s operations and undermine its capacity to censor material and assure user security. Internal documents obtained by The Post reveal, on the other hand, that prior to the Musk deal, current company leadership planned to “pare the company’s payroll” by around $800 million, a relatively modest 25% reduction in the workforce that would only leave around 1,900 people unemployed, along with “major” infrastructure cuts and data center closures.
