evidence: Musk is reported to have become suspicious. A former engineer tells Conger and Mac that Musk demanded to know if Twitter had read his personal messages in the years before the acquisition. He also became concerned that Twitter was staffed by "ghost employees". Executives laughed openly at the idea, but nevertheless a team of people was assigned to check that thousands of employees around the world were "really humans" (they all were). Perhaps Musk had been persuaded by an online rumour that Twitter employees were unpeople; perhaps categorising them as such helped him to justify the thousands of sackings that followed. [...] Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter