Elon Musk defames former Twitter employee with disabilities and is forced to apologize



Since Elon Musk became CEO of Twitter, he has continued to lay off employees in large numbers . Meanwhile, Mr. Musk interacted with a former employee suffering from muscular dystrophy and released a tweet that made fun of the former employee. After tweeting what could be considered racist, Musk acknowledged his mistake and apologized.




Mr. Mask's remarks, which can be considered discriminatory, popped out in a conversation with former employee Haraldur Torleifsson, who was dismissed from Twitter. The flow of the conversation is as follows.

First, on March 7, 2023, Mr. Torleifsson addressed Mr. Musk, ``Access to my work PC was cut off nine days ago along with about 200 other employees. Even if I inquire, I can't confirm whether he was fired or not.Also, Mr. Musk has not replied to my email.If many people retweet this tweet, would you respond to my tweet?' has been sent.




Mr. Musk replied, ``What kind of work did you do?'' About four hours after Torleifson's tweet.




After that, Mr. Torleifsson replied , ``Tweeting the work content violates confidentiality. Please continue.' Mr. Torleifsson started tweeting about his work.




According to Torleifsson's tweet, he manually implemented a project related to SaaS contracts within Twitter and realized a cost reduction of about $ 500,000 (about 68.5 million yen). Mr. Torleifson also appeals for other achievements such as 'Improving the design process of Twitter as a whole', 'Introducing critical design', and 'Encouraging the company to focus on new users'. Mr. Torleifsson is also focusing on philanthropic activities, and the activity of creating 1000 wheelchair slopes in his hometown of Reykjavik, Iceland , has been praised by the United Nations and the President of Iceland.




``To be clear, Mr. Musk has a legitimate right to dismiss me, but I need to be notified in writing or anything when the dismissal takes place. I asked Mr. Mask and related parties for confirmation of the dismissal over the years, but nothing was obtained,' he said, accepting the dismissal itself, but showing a problem that there was no notice of dismissal.




However, Mr. Mask said in a thread different from the above series of tweets, ``Actually, this wealthy and independent person (Mr. Torleifson) is not working. But he's tweeting like a storm. I can't say I respect him very much, 'he posted a tweet teasing Torleifsson, who suffers from muscular dystrophy.




After Mr. Musk's above remarks, Mr. Tolleifsson said that he founded a company ' ueno. ' That develops and markets services while suffering from muscular dystrophy, and has become 'rich and independent' with his own power. It claims to have built




In addition, Torleifson said, ``I can keep writing for 1 to 2 hours at a time.This was no problem with Twitter 1.0 (Twitter before being acquired by Mr. Mask), because I is a senior director, and my main job was to support the team's activities and show a strategic path,' he said, appealing that the symptoms of muscular dystrophy did not affect his work. .




In addition, Daniel Horton, who has worked with Mr. Torleifson, said, ``Mr. Torleifson's talent and humility are world-class. , emphasizing Mr. Torleifsson's high ability.




In response to Mr. Horton's tweet, Mr. Musk said, ``In response to your post, I had a video call with Mr. Torleifson and understood what he was trying to say. It's much better to talk, 'he tweeted, reporting that he had reached a consensus with Mr. Torleifson.




Mr. Mask also said, ``I would like to apologize for misunderstanding Mr. Tolleifson's situation,'' and apologized for making fun of Mr. Tolleifson's symptoms. At the same time, ``Mr. Torleifson is considering remaining on Twitter,'' suggesting the possibility of changing personnel decisions.




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