Elon Musk’s massive Twitter layoffs are here. Are they legal?

Elon Musk has started cleaning house at Twitter, and the casualties are ultimately expected to include nearly half the social media site’s workforce.

Twitter broke its silence on the long-rumored layoffs in a companywide memo on Thursday night, according to multiple major media outlets. The memo did not state how many of Twitter’s 7,500 employees would lose their jobs, but it said all affected workers would be informed by noon Eastern time on Friday.