https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/11/04/twitter-layoff-job-cut-elon-musk-tech-economy-tesla-real-estate/ > Twitter employees braced for massive job cuts on Friday in the wake of Elon Musk’s purchase of the social media platform, which is battling to generate a more robust revenue stream as it attempts to diminish a lake of red ink. > It wasn’t immediately clear, however, whether the Twitter layoffs — which could chop one-fourth or even half of the social network’s workforce — were closely following California labor regulations.