Elon Musk

2022 - 10 - 28

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Twitter staff react to Elon Musk: 'I am fully expecting him to fire 69 ... (Business Insider South Africa)

Twitter employees tweeted to express concern and solidarity amid reports four top executives were fired upon the closure of the $44 billion deal.

[Vijaya Gadde](https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-fired-twitter-exec-kicked-trump-platform-2022-10), legal and policy head, and general counsel, Sean Edgett, also prompted concern in the ranks. [the illustration](https://twitter.com/lmanul/status/1585329447611138049?s=20&t=P2oH1gYAwh4deGwHhfu9eQ) reads, as a cartoon Agrawal reaches for a golden parachute to escape a Twitter-branded plane. [reported $38.7 million severance payout](https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-ceo-executives-get-big-payday-after-elon-musk-takeover-2022-10). [Insider and others reported Thursday](https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-fires-4-top-twitter-execs-including-ceo-parag-agrawal-2022-10). He's previously displayed a penchant for meme-friendly numbers: [In 2018](https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-says-may-take-tesla-private-2018-8), he tweeted that he was considering privatizing Tesla at $420-a-share, and in 2020, joked he'd drop the price of a [Model S to $69,420](https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-tesla-model-s-price-cut-lucid-unveils-air-2020-10). Just one question: was it fun to look at the faces of the people you said you'd be laying off?"

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Elon Musk plans to form 'content moderation council' for Twitter (News24)

The Tesla CEO said that no major decisions or account reinstatement will take place before the council convenes.

But I am going to try to be much more careful about what I say now that Elon Musk is in charge. “For the moment I am staying on Twitter. I wish them strength, wisdom and foresight.” “Let the good times roll.” The platform “is now on a glide path to becoming a supercharged engine of radicalization” and a “fever swamp of dangerous conspiracy theories, partisan chicanery, and operationalized harassment,” the organisation’s head Angelo Carusone said. Elon Musk has announced that he plans to form a “content moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints” at Twitter in his first policy act after taking over the social media company on Friday, stressing that no changes to the platform’s moderation policies have been made so far.

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