Mass layoffs at Twitter on Friday battered the teams primarily responsible for keeping the platform free of misinformation days before the midterm elections, one current and six former Twitter employees familiar with the cuts told NBC News. Five of them were recently laid off. The current and former employees are worried about chaos around the elections and CEO Elon Musk's plan to allow Twitter users to buy verification badges, which could potentially allow anyone to release disinformation from official-looking accounts. |