United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk has said the reports of Twitter's billionaire new CEO Elon Musk laying off the entire human rights team working with the social media giant were not "an encouraging start". In an open letter, he urged Musk to make respect for human rights central to Twitter. There have been reports that half of Twitter's more than 7,500 employees across the world could be sacked, with Musk taking to the microblogging to claim there is "no choice" because "the company is losing over $4M/day".