The fresh round of layoffs included product managers, big data experts and engineers working on machine learning and platform reliability. The controversy came as the New York Times reported that Twitter had laid off at least 200 employees, or 10 percent of its already decimated workforce. "All he has to do is keep quiet, but he has to constantly spout stuff that alienates advertisers."
"It's as though Elon Musk is on a whirlwind tour to try to put Twitter out of business," said independent tech analyst Rob Enderle of Enderle Group. Under Musk's leadership, Tesla has been hit with multiple lawsuits alleging racism and researchers say hate speech has flourished at Twitter since his takeover. "Same thing happened with elite colleges & high schools in America. "For a 'very' long time, US media was racist against non-white people, now they're racist against whites & Asians," Musk wrote in a post on Twitter, where he has reinstated thousands of users banned for hate speech. Musk, chief of electric car company Tesla and Twitter, made his comment in regard to backlash to a rant by Scott Adams, creator of the long-running "Dilbert" comic strip-a satirical take on office life.Īdams, like Musk, has increasingly stoked controversy with his views on social issues. He has previously attracted criticism for supporting Donald Trump, mocking women seeking equal pay, and incorporating what he called “anti-woke” plotlines into his comics, including one story in which a Black character identifies as white.Musk called US media "racist" on Sunday after multiple American newspapers announced they would stop publishing a popular comic strip whose creator called Black people a hate group. It’s not the first time Mr Adams has been involved in controversy. We certainly do not want to provide them with financial support.” We are not a home for those who espouse racism. “No, this is a decision based on the principles of this news organization and the community we serve. “I hate to quote him at all, but I do so to dissuade responses that this is a ‘cancel culture’ decision. “It’s a staggering string of statements, all but certain to result in the loss of his livelihood,” the editor wrote. Launched in 1989, the Dilbert comic has achieved worlwide popularity and syndication across the country, but a number of large newspapers have dropped the strip in the wake of Mr Adams’ comments.Ĭleveland Plain Dealer editor Chris Quinn, in a letter to readers, described Adams’ online comments as “mostly hateful and racist” and said that it was “not a difficult decision” to drop the cartoon. And I would say, based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from Black people…because there is no fixing this.”
“I don’t want to have anything to do with them. “If nearly half of all Blacks are not OK with white people…that’s a hate group,” the cartoonist said. In his video, the Dilbert cartoonist suggested white people should stay away from Black people, whom he called a “hate group.” Publications and publishers began cutting ties with Mr Adams after he reacted in an online video to a poll showing only a small majority of Black Americans agreed with the statement “It’s OK to be white.” The Independent has contacted Portfolio and Mr Adams’ reported literary agent for comment. Mr Adams, in his Twitter post, claimed further that the publisher had stated “no disagreement about my point of view.” Portfolio, a Penguin Random House imprint, had previous plans to publish Mr Adams’s forthcoming book Reframe Your Brain in September, before deciding otherwise, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. Marquee newspapers including the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and USA Today-affiliated publications decided to stop printing Dilbert after Mr Adams referred to Black people as a “hate group” in a recent online video. “My publisher for non-Dilbert books has canceled my upcoming book and the entire backlist,” Mr Adams wrote on Twitter on Monday. Scott Adams, the creator of the popular Dilbert comics, said a publisher has “canceled” plans for releasing an upcoming book as well as a backlist of his titles, after Mr Adams made racist comments that led to a number of major US newspapers dropping his popular syndicated comic strip.
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