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David Burton is an employment law barrister and a regular opinion contributor.

OPINION: The giant social media companies are again in the media. The social damage that is often the focus of media reports for them is instead another type of social damage; it is focussed on reports of large scale layoffs.

Much ado has been made about Elon Musk’s, the world's richest person, $US44 billion (NZ$72.1b) acquisition of Twitter.

Since taking over, Twitter has started a major round of layoffs. It is reported that employees were alerted of their job status by email after the company barred access to the entrances of offices and cut off workers' access to internal systems overnight.

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The move followed a period of uncertainty about the company's future. Elon Musk had tweeted that the service was experiencing a "massive drop in revenue" over doubt whether Twitter would protect content moderation on its platform.

Twitter has been silent about the depth of the cuts, but it has been reported Twitter is looking to cut around 3700 staff, about half its...

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