Twitter’s mass layoffs, days before US midterms, could be a misinformation disaster

Internal chaos at the company - and the decimation of its staff - has created ideal conditions for falsehoods and hateful content

The mass layoffs at Twitter that diminished several teams, including staff on the company's safety and misinformation teams, could spell disaster during the US midterm elections next week, experts have warned.

The company has laid off around 50% of its workforce, according to news reports; a figure that Musk and others have not disputed, amounting to an estimated 3,700 people.