On May 12, 2022, the New York Post published Ariel Zilber’s report that Twitter had ousted two top executives — Kayvon Beykpour, then general manager on the consumer side, and Bruce Falck, Twitter’s head of revenue / general manager for revenue — as Elon Musk’s pending acquisition loomed. The Post wrote that both men tweeted they were fired that Thursday, and that CEO Parag Agrawal had asked them to leave.
For Falck, the Post’s account is specific: he “also tweeted that he was ‘fired’ by Agrawal. That tweet was later deleted.” This page treats that as the Post’s reporting of a since-deleted post. It does not reconstruct a deleted tweet beyond what the Post printed. Beykpour’s public post, which the Post quoted, said Agrawal asked him to leave after saying he wanted to take the team in a different direction; Jay Sullivan was to take over Beykpour’s role.
The Post said Agrawal circulated a staff memo announcing the departures, freezing new hires, and pulling back discretionary spending, with no then-current plan for staff layoffs. Citing the memo (first reported by the New York Times), the Post said Agrawal tied the changes to Twitter’s failure to hit audience and revenue growth goals. The same piece places the firings in the flux after Twitter’s board accepted Musk’s roughly $44 billion buyout offer, and notes Musk’s stated intent to change content-moderation policy. Those are the Post’s frames. They are not a finding that Falck personally ordered a moderation action.
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