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Sacked Twitter staff in Ghana finally get pay-off


Former workers at X's Africa base say they have got their severance pay after a year-long campaign.

Most had only been in the job, based in Ghana's capital, Accra, for a few months when the social media platform fired them in November 2022. In a rare interview last April, Mr Musk told the BBC that the social media giant had 1,500 employees, down from the just under 8,000 who were employed at the time he bought the company. Last year, X was hit by a lawsuit, filed by ex-employees in a California court, for allegedly refusing to pay at least $500m in promised severance packages.

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