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IBM is Trying to Hide Mass Layoffs, Not Only With NDAs and 'Scripted' LinkedIn Posts

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 02, 2026

3 people publicly announced their last day at IBM, just in the past 4 hours (a Monday):

Eight years ago, I walked into the IBM Cambridge studio with more curiosity than credentials.

Yesterday:

IBM’s 13% Plunge Sparks Broader AI Fear: Is Your Job Safe in Two Years?

Weeks ago: Threats From 'Former' Red Hat (Now IBM) Staff While IBM's Likely Accounting Fraud Attracts Public Scrutiny

Today: Last Month [Former Red Hat] Matthew Garrett Said Ridiculous Things After His Spouse Had Called Him a "Rapist", Now He's Trying to Take the Site Offline and Put My Family in Prison

Former Red Hat person had a man knocking on my door to dump ~2,000 pages (mostly machine-generated stuff) on my wife and I while I was literally typing this article about IBM. I went back to my chair and published the article about a new thread which has since then attracted some of the expected comments:

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a federal law prohibiting employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, s-x (including pregnancy, s-xual orientation, and gender identity), and national origin

From what we can gather (screenshot above), today many people leave IBM and Red Hat (many got officially reclassified as "IBM" this year and last July, so "Red Hat layoffs" won't be mentioned).

It seems rather clear that censorship attempts against us coincide with us publishing inconvenient facts, including allegations of accounting fraud at IBM or accusations of rape.

So we carry on.

Thankfully I don't live in Turkey, so the principles of freedom of the press exist here and politicians as well as NGOs act as observers. █

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