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 (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:
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:
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  —  Twitter Inc., confronting reports that Elon Musk aims to gut its workforce as part of his takeover, told staff that there haven’t been plans …

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 …

Kurt Wagner / @kurtwagner8:
Sources: Twitter’s head of Trust & Safety Yoel Roth and head of sales Robin Wheeler resigned today  —  NEW: Hearing that the top execs remaining at Twitter — head of Trust & Safety @yoyoel and head of sales @robinw — both resigned today When you add in that Musk told employees this afternoon that bankruptcy is possible, it feels like Twitter is almost collapsing in real-time