Twitter confirms 140 jobs to go from Irish operation

Elon Musk’s mass layoff of 50% of the company’s global workforce has led to concerns that hate speech and misinformation could thrive on the platform in the resultant vacuum.

The Government has been formally notified by Twitter that it intends to lay off 140 of its Irish employees, Tánaiste Leo Varadkar has said.

Mr Varadkar said “at long last” the Government has received the redundancy notice, as legally required from Twitter, saying it intends to sack over a third of its staff.