90% of Indians fired from Twitter

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• Nov 7, 2022 | Sourav Boruah

Digital Desk: During
the Covid-19 outbreak, as more businesses converted to an online manner of
operation, Meta embarked on a recruiting binge. It hired more than 27,000
workers in total in 2020 and 2021, and an additional 15,344 people in the first
nine months of this year.

The businesses
must deal with "increasingly severe content laws intended to rein in giant
digital enterprises in the country," though.

About 70% of the
positions lost in India came from the engineering and product teams, which
worked on a worldwide mandate.

also cut across
departments, including corporate communications, public policy, and marketing,
the people claimed. Twitter, situated in San Francisco, California, cut over
3,700 jobs from its global workforce.

On Twitter,
several contending parties in India have some of the most "febrile
political debates," with accusations and denials taking around the social
media site like wildfire.

Over 84 million
people follow Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the platform.

With its newly
reduced headcount in the nation, which includes more than 100 languages,
"it is unclear how Twitter expects to manage that dialogue," the
article added, noting that there are still roughly 3,700 workers employed by
the firm worldwide.