Did AOL Just Fire All Its Freelancers?

OK, this is totally unconfirmed, please take with a grain of salt while we investigate, BUT….

A tipster sent an e-mail to Silicon Alley Insider that is “widely interpreted” by AOL freelancers as “you’re fired.”

The e-mail, which was apparently widely distributed to many AOL freelancers, if not all, includes the sentence: “Everyone will receive payment in accordance with their contracts, per the monthly operating routine to date.”

This, the tipster said, “we infer that it means we won’t be paid for any work going forward.”

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