“The company’s trust and safety team, which makes policy recommendations, design and product changes with the aim of keeping all of Twitter’s users safe, is down to fewer than 20 full-time employees.”
Twitter had about 7,500 employees before the $44 billion buyout. Internal records show roughly 1,300 working now, fewer than 550 engineers, and fewer than 20 people on trust and safety. Another 1,400 are paid to do nothing. Elon Musk claims 2,300, and the payroll says otherwise.