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