Elon Musk is taking a huge chance on people who either love him or hate him.
The South African native has been asking everyone with a Twitter account if he should “step down as head of Twitter.”
On Sunday, December 18, the multi-billionaire tweeted, “Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll.”
Should Elon Musk Step Down As Head Of Twitter?!?
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The results of the poll showed that almost 60% of people said ‘Yes’ to him resigning as the head of Twitter.
42.5% of people said he should NOT step down.
And of course, many have funny thoughts about Musk’s poll.
Keith Edwards asked, “Are you really new…”
Many People Don’t Want Musk to Keep Twitter
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Another person retweeted his post with some ClipArt.
“No. NO! FU ELON,” they tweeted.
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Another joked, “I’m an engineer at Twitter and Elon just asked me to ban all accounts that voted Yes on this poll.”
Others quipped Musk tweeted, “Stop the count” when the ‘Yes’ polls were at 100% and the ‘No’ polls were at zero.
Explosion previously reported on Twitter “Trust & Safety” is shrinking.
Obviously, Musk doesn’t have a huge impact on social media platforms.
The social media platform has undergone a surprising number of changes since Musk acquired the app. Twitter’s ‘Musk era’ has been a year-long process, which was finalized in late October when the $44 billion deal finally closed.
Musk Didn’t Make As Deep an Impact on Twitter as He Thought…
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Musk, 51, has made several changes to Twitter’s staff over the past month and a half. He fired the company’s Chief Executive, Chief Financial Officer and Head of Legal Policy after its official takeover on October 28. Prior to Musk’s takeover, a ‘stack position review’ began to take place; According to an Insider report per The Blast on November 3, “The Vice President has compiled a list of employees in their department and made two lists: one employee they want to keep, and another list of employees they want to fire.
Musk plans to lay off half of Twitter’s workforce, cutting 3,700 employees from the company.
The layoff took place on November 4. The employees were notified of their termination via email, according to ABC News.
The email read “This is your last day at the company” and contained the subject line, “Your Role At Twitter.”
Weeks after Musk-mandated layoffs, three founding members of Twitter’s Trust and Safety Council decided to step down from the company.
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follow Huffington Post, Anne Collier, Eirliani Abdul Rahman and Lesley Podesta have resigned from Twitter’s Trust and Safety Council, with Collier and Abdul Rahman announcing the move in an open letter.
Collier tweeted a screenshot of the letter, which read in part, “It is clear from the research evidence that, contrary to claims by Elon Musk, the safety and well-being of Twitter users is deteriorating. The question has been on our minds: Is Musk allowed to dictate digital security because he has freedom of speech? Our answer is a categorical ‘no’” (via Net Family News)
The letter also cited research from the Anti-Defamation League and the Center Against Digital Hate, which, according to the Huffington Post, “shows insults against black Americans and gay men have increased on the platform by 195% and 58%, respectively.”
The outlet also reported that research shows contempt for Black Americans has tripled since Musk’s takeover. Before October 28, the insult appeared on the platform an average of 1,282 times a day. Now Twitter sees about 3,876. Gay men received an average of 2,506 insults on the platform per day before Musk took over. Now Twitter sees an average of 3,964 insults per day.
Three of us resigned from Twitter’s Trust & Safety Council today: @eirliani @podesta_lesley and me. Here’s why https://t.co/h05TblfGIO pic.twitter.com/iqcHvhbgms
— annecollier (@annecollier) December 8, 2022
“I can no longer find a reason to remain in tacit support of what Twitter has become,” Collier said.
Musk has allowed some banned users to return to the platform over the past few weeks. He allowed Kanye ‘Ye’ West to be reinstated on Twitter after the rapper previously posted anti-Semitic content in October, only to have it removed from the platform again.
Andrew Anglin also reappeared on the platform after his account was suspended in 2015, according to Tech Crunch. Anglin is the founder of a neo-Nazi website; The Huffington Post also reported Anglin “promised in a statement to abide by all Twitter rules in a statement.”
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