After Musk’s mass layoffs, X says it’s increasing security and election groups

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X, the social community that most individuals nonetheless name Twitter, says it’s including workers to its security and elections groups because it begins permitting extra political promoting.

“We’re at present increasing our security and elections groups to concentrate on combating manipulation, surfacing inauthentic accounts and carefully monitoring the platform for rising threats,” the corporate mentioned in a weblog publish as we speak.

X most likely would not want to rent extra workers if not for proprietor Elon Musk’s excessive cost-cutting. Since shopping for Twitter in October 2022, he has lowered the worker rely from about 7,500 folks to round 1,500.