Memo: Twitter told staff that there haven’t been plans for companywide layoffs since it signed a deal with Elon Musk, and that it can’t confirm Musk’s plans (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)

Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Source: Zuckerberg told staff in a weekly Q&A that Meta will freeze hiring, restructure some teams, and reduce budgets across teams, citing economic conditions  —  Meta Platforms Inc., the owner of Facebook and Instagram, said it will freeze hiring and restructure some teams in an effort to cut costs and shift priorities.

Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
In his first email to Twitter staff, Elon Musk warns of “difficult times ahead” and ends remote work policies, saying employees should be in 40+ hours per week  —  New Twitter Inc. owner Elon Musk emailed his workers for the first time late Wednesday to prepare them for “difficult times ahead.”

Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Elon Musk fired at least one company engineer, who had publicly criticized Musk on the platform over Twitter’s RPCs and Twitter being slow on Android  —  Twitter Inc. owner Elon Musk, who has called himself a “free speech absolutist,” has resorted to firing company engineers who publicly criticize him on the social-media service.

Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Elon Musk says Apple has “fully resumed” advertising on Twitter, after claiming on November 28 that Apple had “mostly stopped” Twitter ads  —  Elon Musk said Apple Inc. has “fully resumed” advertising on Twitter Inc., further de-escalating a brewing war between two of the world’s most influential tech companies.

Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
After Bari Weiss shared screenshots of internal systems, Twitter’s trust and safety head Ella Irwin says “reporters were not accessing user DMs”  —  Elon Musk is giving outside writers unprecedented access to internal Twitter Inc. information, instructing the current head of trust …

Faiz Siddiqui / Washington Post:
In an email to its employees, Twitter says that layoffs across its global workforce will begin on Friday to “place Twitter on a healthy path”  —  Employees said the layoffs came across teams, as Twitter broadly reduced its workforce.  Musk originally pitched investors on cutting Twitter’s staff up to 75 percent.