On Thursday, November 3rd, 2022, thousands of Twitter workers didn’t know if they would have a job in the morning. Those who were directly hired at Twitter woke up to an email with either a new assignment or a severance package. But contract workers like Melissa Ingle got nothing.
Ingle was contracted to work on political misinformation at Twitter, working to ensure that the midterm elections wouldn’t be influenced by bots and hoaxes. She and her fellow contract workers rushed to check their inboxes for their decision emails — but they never got one.
Melissa then…
