Twitter laid off hundreds of employees in the middle of the night with no official word from the San Francisco headquarters. Employees in Ireland and Britain stayed up late waiting for San Francisco to inform them of their job status. The cuts were so haphazard that at least one worker was locked out of the company’s systems during a meeting. Twitter has cut about half of its work force, or about 3,700 jobs, four people with knowledge of the matter say. The cuts come just over a week after Elon Musk closed his $44 billion buyout of the company. Rarely have layoffs this deep had been made by a single individual at a tech company. Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s co-founder, apologized to employees in a tweet on Saturday.

In evaluation of such unseen circumstances, Sandra Sucher, a professor of management at Harvard University who has studied layoffs for more than a decade, said Twitter’s cuts were among the most poorly handled that she had seen. While the scale was not unprecedented, it was unusual to see layoffs done so quickly without a detailed explanation provided to workers about who was being laid off and why, she said.

Musk’s take to justify the happening, in short, is as such: he cut roughly 3,700 of the company’s 7,500 employees, saying he had no choice because Twitter was losing $4 million a day. 

The issue in question is whether to conclude on the prioritization of performance within a profit-based organization or the prioritization of a satisfactory working environment in such a profit-based circumstances.

It is commonly known that Musk is a strong patron of free speech, thus democracy. Some conclude his actions show quite the opposite.

In a report that was published on Monday, researchers at the Fletcher School at Tufts University said the early signs of Mr. Musk’s Twitter “show the platform is heading in the wrong direction under his leadership — at a particularly inconvenient time for American democracy.”

In another view, the environment crafted as the aftermath of Musk’s intervention is both representatives of a democratic and anti-democratic society. Abrupt cutting of employees formed an anti-democratic style of management, putting several Twitter functions or events on a stop. Foreign companies, including all Volkswagen brands like Audi, have cut ties with Twitter, stopping all advertisements and funding to Twitter. On this, Musk has met with the Board of Directors (BD), with results and further plans yet to come. 

Quite surprisingly, Musk’s advocation of free speech has created a fault in safe democracy rooted in an inherently democratic-motivated space. 

Here’s what that means: Musk has remarkably loosened Twitter post restrictions, and thus the wild and undisturbed spread of false information. In a democratic society, its ideals only hold on solid check & balance systems with diverse, yet simultaneously aptly truthful, media corporations to spread information to the general public, when thereafter the public executes their freedom of rational and informed personal choices.

Musk’s space deletes the core of the premise: false information.

On top of that, in efforts to boost sales on Twitter, Musk has opened a system where anyone can have a “offical-ceritified” account checkmark in the shape of a blue star with a checkmark just through a monthly $8 subscription to Twitter Blue. 

Though this Blue subscription system has been removed, the advent of Musk and his hands reaching the global community fostering, in some perspectives, a dangerous democratic environment, is a risky event to let happen. 

We shall wait to see the government and check & balance systems cover up Musk and his slippery plays.