Tech News Weekly 260

• Meta announced a huge round of layoffs in its company. Gerrit De Vynck from The Washington Post joins the show to discuss some of the layoffs' details.
• Stephen Shankland from CNET stops by to talk about Mastodon, what he liked about the social network, and what he has struggled with the alternative to Twitter so far.
• Ant Pruitt talks about how Twitter's new for-purchase verification badge has been abused already since its launch earlier this week.
• Finally, Mikah Sargent talks about a new cost-cutting review program launched by Amazon to reevaluate specific sectors in the company that hasn't been profitable.

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Links

• Meta laying off 11,000 as tech industry slashes jobs
• I Am Trying to Like Mastodon
• LeBron James and others impersonated by verified Twitter accounts
• Mike Masnick on Twitter: "I see the "verification" system is going juuuuuuuuuuuust great."
• Amazon, in Broad Cost-Cutting Review, Weighs Changes at Alexa and Other Unprofitable Units