CNN, a global news organization, reported on July 17, 2023, that Twitter has stopped responding to some of the ex-employees of the social media behemoth who were fired by the firm last year.
After Elon Musk, one of the richest men in the world, acquired Twitter for $44 billion in December 2022, all 11 of its employees in the Accra-based Africa branch were fired.
Larry Madowo, a CNN international correspondent and host of the African Voices Changemakers and Playmakers series, claims that the corporation has since stopped commenting on the arrangement after negotiating a three-month severance package for the former employees through their attorneys.
“Unfortunately, it appears that after having unethically implemented their terminations in violation of their own promises and Ghana’s laws, dragging the negotiation process out for over half a year, now that we have come to the point of almost settlement, there has been complete silence from them for several weeks,” he quoted a statement from the lawyer of the former employees, Carla Olympio during a news bulletin.
Larry went on to say that attempts by CNN to contact Twitter for explanations via email were met with a curt response—a faeces emoji.
“CNN has reached out to Twitter for comments and got what is now a set of response, a poop emoji,” he told his colleague Rahel Solomon.
When the anchor sought to clarify the claim the correspondent affirmed saying “Yes, that’s the email to twitter@press.com, gives back a poop emoji.”
