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Twitter was plunged into turmoil Friday after Elon Musk's team started laying off wide swaths of the company's workforce, infuriating employees and rattling a technology industry already grappling with an economic downturn. The mass layoffs were documented in part on the social media platform itself, where many employees appeared to rally together in solidarity under the #OneTeam hashtag, and the blue heart and the salute emojis. Employees commiserated in Slack channels, and some found themselves abruptly locked out of their email accounts, according to five workers who spoke to NBC News and CNBC. All requested that their names be withheld, citing fears of professional retribution or losing their severance pay. "Elon will own a company without employees," a source inside Twitter told CNBC. In an exchange at an investor conference Friday, Musk appeared to confirm that his team had laid off half the company's workforce, according to CNBC. Ron Baron, a hedge fund ma...

Chick-fil-A is under fire for a tweet that social media users said called out a Twitter user’s race. On Friday, Sept. 9, a Twitter user tweeted at the fast food chain, writing, “grilled spicy deluxe but still noooo spicy nuggets…………@ChickfilA…..” In direct response to the tweet, the official Twitter account for Chick-fil-A responded, “Your community will be the first to know if spicy items are added to the permanent menu, Don!” While the initial tweet only had six replies, Chick-fil-A’s response garnered more than 700 replies and 4,300 quote tweets due to the choice of wording used in the message. Many Twitter users called out the account’s decision to use the term “your community,” questioning if they were targeting the user’s identity, which appears to be Black. “What do you mean by ‘your community’???????” one tweet read.  Another user added , “Your community? I’m gonna need explanation for that comment. ‘Our’ community wouldn’t wanna think that there was some racial undertones beh...