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Elon Musk to address Twitter staff after internal outcry

Employees raged on internal message boards, expressing fears Musk will sabotage their culture and make it hard to do their jobs

Updated April 7, 2022 at 8:53 p.m. EDT|Published April 7, 2022 at 7:52 p.m. EDT
Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX and chief executive officer of Tesla, in 2020. (Liesa Johannssen-Koppitz/Bloomberg News)
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Twitter plans to host Elon Musk for a question-and-answer session with employees after a week of internal outcries over his appointment to the social network’s board of directors, according to company messages obtained by The Washington Post.

The announcement from Twitter chief executive Parag Agrawal of the highly unusual internal AMA — which stands for “ask me anything” — session was an effort to assuage anxious workers, who in recent days have expressed worries that the firebrand Musk could inflict damage to the company’s culture, as well as make it harder for people to do their jobs.