Reports are circulating of a management cull at the micro-blogging platform.
Reports state new owner of Twitter, billionaire Elon Musk has fired Twitter’s CEO Parag Agarawal, CFO Ned Segal, and chief content moderator Vijaya Gadde.
Gadde was the main actor in the controversry to ban former US President Donald Trump from Twitter.
Unconfirmed reports also say Twitter staff responsible for banning political ads and censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story have all been fired.
BREAKING: Elon Musk officially closed the Twitter deal.
Twitter's CEO Parag Agarawal, CFO Ned Segal, and chief content moderator Vijaya Gadde, who got Twitter to ban Donald Trump, got them to ban political ads, and censor the Hunter Biden story have all been FIRED
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) October 28, 2022
FREEDOM
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 28, 2022
BREAKING: Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and CFO Ned Segal have left the company, leaving Elon Musk in charge of Twitter.
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) October 28, 2022
Musk says he bought Twitter for the sake of ‘humanity’
The billionaire has claimed that he’s buying the platform because a digital town square is “important to the future of civilization”.
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has tried to calm advertiser concerns about his acquisition of Twitter, telling them that he’s buying the social media platform to help save human civilization and that he won’t let it become a “free-for-all hellscape.”
Speaking on the eve of closing his $44 billion takeover of Twitter, Musk posted a message to advertisers explaining his rationale for the deal. “I didn’t do it to make more money,” he said. “I did it to try to help humanity, whom I love. And I do so with humility, recognizing that failure in pursuing this goal, despite our best efforts, is a very real possibility.”
The Tesla CEO, who ranks as the world’s richest person with a fortune estimated by Forbes at more than $221 billion, made his takeover bid for Twitter in April. At the time, he pledged to end censorship of conservative voices on the platform, saying free speech was a “societal imperative for a functioning democracy.”
Dear Twitter Advertisers pic.twitter.com/GMwHmInPAS
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 27, 2022
Critics, including Twitter employees, raised concerns that Musk would make the platform unsafe by allowing “harmful” content. In May, more than two dozen left-wing activist groups urged advertisers to boycott Twitter if Musk completed his takeover, saying he would make the social media giant a “direct threat to public safety.”
Although Musk has called himself a “free speech absolutist,” his note to advertisers suggested that the conversations on Twitter won’t be completely unregulated under his ownership. “Twitter obviously cannot become a free-for-all hellscape where anything can be said with no consequences,” he said. “In addition to adhering to the laws of the land, our platform must be warm and welcoming to all, where you can choose your desired experience according to your preferences, just as you can choose, for example, to see movies or play video games ranging from all ages to mature.”
Musk said the social media industry currently faces a risk of splintering into far-right and far-left “echo chambers that generate more hate and divide our society.” Traditional media outlets have fueled and catered to the polarized extremes as they relentlessly pursue higher ratings and profits, he added.
“The reason I acquired Twitter is because it is important to the future of civilization to have a common digital town square, where a wide range of beliefs can be debated in a healthy manner, without resorting to violence,” the billionaire said.
Additional reporting: RT
Elon made his intentions clear when he walked into the building carrying a hand basin. It would have been more appropriate if he had carried in a toilet bowl as certain elements at Twitter are now well and truly flushed. Though I have never used the platform, I wish him well in his work to bring Twitter back to a more balanced, civil environment, where people can see themselves, and their views, in some way respected. This is of course if that sort of thing happens in this day and age…
Bull**** he’s lying he’s data collecting remember this is the weirdo that’s going to hack peoples brains with his neurological mad scientist experiment. He’s elite, he’s controlled opposition, he’s dangerous
I’ve considered this to be honest. It’s pretty well known the intelligence agencies use social media to track people, steal data and gather information. Too much censorship bullshit in recent years sent everyone splintering off onto independent platforms they don’t control. This would be a great way to lure people back.
It struck me as odd that for all the howling and gnashing of teeth over Elon’s actions, he hasn’t faced nearly half the punishment people like trump or Kanye West have.
I’ve never used Twitter, and likely never will, but it’ll be interesting to see what happens
Anyways, who are these nincompoop immigrants into the USA to cancel the president of the country they immigrated into??? Maybe they need to go back to the s***holes they come from, to appreciate true freedom of entrepreneurship and true freedom of speech.