Elon Musk first moved to buy Twitter back in April. On Oct. 27, he successfully purchased the platform for 44 billion. Immediately after the deal closed, he fired at least four executives, including the chief execute and the chief financial officer, per The New York Times, and set off a chain reaction of changes across the platform.
"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," Musk tweeted in a note addressed to advertisers shared after the acquisition went through. "There is currently great danger that social media will splinter into far right wing and far left wing echo chambers that generate more hate and divide our society."
In a since-deleted tweet shared days later, Musk retweeted an anti-lgbtq+ conspiracy theory about Paul Pelosi,...
"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," Musk tweeted in a note addressed to advertisers shared after the acquisition went through. "There is currently great danger that social media will splinter into far right wing and far left wing echo chambers that generate more hate and divide our society."
In a since-deleted tweet shared days later, Musk retweeted an anti-lgbtq+ conspiracy theory about Paul Pelosi,...
- 12/9/2022
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