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Musk buys Twitter and immediately fires four top managers

2022-10-28T02:09:42.203Z


Among them also the CEO Agrawal. Escorted out of the office (ANSA)


A few hours before the deadline set by the judge, Elon Musk completes the Twitter purchase operation for $ 44 billion and immediately makes a clean sweep by brutally firing four top managers, including CEO Parag Agrawal.

The other torpedoes are chief financial officer Ned Segal, head of legal affairs and policy Vijaya Gadde, and general counsel Sean Edgett.

At least one of them was escorted out of the San Franciso headquarters, where the richest man in the world had already landed yesterday with a large sink with a cryptic meaning.

And on Thursday he explained that he wanted to buy Twitter driven by "love" and the desire to "help humanity".

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I buy Twitter because it is important for the future of civilization to have a digital common square where a wide range of ideas can be discussed in a healthy way without resorting to violence, "he said warning of the current danger of social media splitting into" sound chambers from the right or left that generate more hatred and divide the country.

In relentlessly searching for clicks, traditional media have fueled extremes.

That's why I buy Twitter.

Not because it's easy, not because it makes money.

I do this to try to help the humanity I love.

And I do it with humility, recognizing that, despite the best efforts, there is a real possibility of failure "in trying to hit the objectives, he adds. In reality he conquers the only thing that his empire lacked:

a global media audience that makes him the richest man on the planet even more powerful and influential.

Musk also tried to reassure him about his intentions.

To advertisers worried about possible fewer controls on content, he said: "It will not become a hell open to all", of all against all and "where you can say anything without consequences".

The message to the employees of the company that chirps is equally clear: there is no intention to cut the workforce by 75%, as fancied by press rumors.

Certainly the visionary entrepreneur wants to revolutionize the platform, also using it as an "accelerator to create X, the app of everything".

And remove the "censorship", with the possibility of a return of Donald Trump,

after he was banned for instigating the assault on the American Congress.

This concludes one of the most controversial economic and media operations in recent US history, after Twitter took Musk to court for retracting the initial offer, only to think again when he sensed that the lawsuit was not going well for him.


Source: ansa

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