Alex Heath

In the latest edition of my newsletter Command Line, I report on comments Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg made in a recent all-hands meeting: “I don’t think you want a management structure that’s just managers managing managers, managing managers, managing managers, managing the people who are doing the work.”

800 laid off employees are now seeking damages for the compensation Musk agreed to give them in his merger agreement but didn’t. Twitter is on the hook to pay the fees for these individual arbitration cases, which combined could total tens of millions of dollars.

I make some informed guesses at who the best candidates are in the second edition of my newsletter Command Line, which just hit inboxes for paid subscribers. Also in today’s edition: the mood inside Google as employees brace for possible layoffs on the horizon, the state of the mobile app economy, and some key personnel moves at WhatsApp, TikTok, and Apple.

That’s one of the scoops in the first edition of my new newsletter for The Verge called Command Line, which hit inboxes last Thursday. Also in the edition: an exclusive on how Meta is attempting to fix the bureaucracy in its Reality Labs vision (who knew “pre-meetings” were a thing?), a chat over DM with Jack Dorsey about the promise of decentralized social media, and an interview with Shopify’s COO about the company’s plan to kill meetings.

Despite Elon Musk’s previous assertion that Twitter is done with layoffs, Bloomberg reports the company just let go of more people from the moderation team.