SpaceX ‘terminates number of employees’ who wrote letter slamming CEO’s ’embarrassing’ tweets and demanding that management ‘swiftly and explicitly separates itself from Elon’s personal brand’
Some SpaceX staff wrote a letter slamming Musk’s ’embarrassing’ tweets
It was posted to the company’s internal comms system on Wednesday, for all 2,600 staff to see
On Thursday night, COO Gwynne Shotwell announced some of the staff behind it had been fired
She claimed they ‘pressured’ other workers into signing it and that it constitutes ‘overreaching activism’
Musk recently acquired Twitter in a hostile takeover propelled by his passion for free speech
On Thursday, he told Twitter staff he would tolerate ‘pretty outrageous’ comments on the site
