A laid-off Twitter manager, who was one of Elon Musk's most loyal employees, tweeted 'cruelty is the worst' in an apparent dig at the tech mogul

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Esther Crawford tweeted "cruelty is the worst," shortly after Elon Musk accused a former Twitter director of using his disability as an "excuse."

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Elon Musk apologized after publicly accusing an employee of using their disability as an 'excuse.' An employment lawyer called the whole saga 'a bit unusual.'

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Elon Musk has apologized for his comments about a former Twitter employee with muscular dystrophy.

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Elon Musk says it's been 'a very difficult 4 months' at Twitter, but that the company has 'a shot' at becoming cash-flow positive next quarter

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Twitter CEO Elon Musk said he's optimistic about the future for the company.

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A YouTuber charged a non-Tesla EV at a Supercharger and it 'descended into chaos'

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Marques Brownlee took a non-Tesla to a Supercharger.

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Elon Musk accuses laid-off Twitter employee of using their disability as an 'excuse' to do 'no actual work'

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Haraldur Thorleifsson formerly worked at Twitter.

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A Twitter employee says staff have grown 'numb' to outages because they've become 'so frequent'

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Elon Musk's Twitter suffered another outage Monday.

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A senior Twitter employee says he spent 9 days trying to figure out whether or not he'd been laid off

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Elon Musk (left) engaged in a Twitter spat with former employee Haraldur Thorleifsson.

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Twitter's latest outage was reportedly caused by a single engineer's mistake. One employee says the platform is so brittle, 'everything breaks' if engineers change something.

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Twitter owner Elon Musk.

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A laid-off Twitter employee reportedly lost her health insurance a week before her child was born

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An ex-Twitter employee says she lost her company health insurance a week before her child was born, per CNN.

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Elon Musk publicly trolled a Twitter employee who wanted to know if they still had their job: 'What work have you been doing?'

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Elon Musk leaves the Phillip Burton Federal Building in San Francisco.

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