Jim Carrey joins growing list of celebrities leaving Twitter after Elon Musk acquisition
Elon Musk decided to buy Twitter for the first time in April. On October 27, he successfully purchased the platform for $44 billion. Immediately after the deal was struck, he fired at least four executives, including the chief executive and chief financial officer, according to The New York Times, and set off a chain reaction of changes across the platform.
"The reason I acquired Twitter is that it is important for the future of civilization to have a common digital public square, where a wide range of beliefs can be debated in a healthy way, without resorting to to violence," Musk tweeted in a note to advertisers shared after the acquisition was completed. “There is currently a great danger that social media will split into far-right and far-left echo chambers that generate more hate and divide our society.”
In a since-deleted tweet shared a few days later, Musk retweeted an anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theory about Paul Pelosi, who was attacked at his home and Nancy Pelosi in San Francisco on Oct. 28. In a response to a post from Hillary Clinton, Musk shared an article promoting a conspiracy theory from the Santa Monica Observer, a right-wing website that has developed conspiracy theories in the past - even sharing an article suggesting Clinton herself died on 9/11 and was replaced by a lookalike, per The Associated Press.
Musk, who has a net worth of $203 billion, according to Time Magazine, is the richest man in the world, according to
Elon Musk decided to buy Twitter for the first time in April. On October 27, he successfully purchased the platform for $44 billion. Immediately after the deal was struck, he fired at least four executives, including the chief executive and chief financial officer, according to The New York Times, and set off a chain reaction of changes across the platform.
"The reason I acquired Twitter is that it is important for the future of civilization to have a common digital public square, where a wide range of beliefs can be debated in a healthy way, without resorting to to violence," Musk tweeted in a note to advertisers shared after the acquisition was completed. “There is currently a great danger that social media will split into far-right and far-left echo chambers that generate more hate and divide our society.”
In a since-deleted tweet shared a few days later, Musk retweeted an anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theory about Paul Pelosi, who was attacked at his home and Nancy Pelosi in San Francisco on Oct. 28. In a response to a post from Hillary Clinton, Musk shared an article promoting a conspiracy theory from the Santa Monica Observer, a right-wing website that has developed conspiracy theories in the past - even sharing an article suggesting Clinton herself died on 9/11 and was replaced by a lookalike, per The Associated Press.
Musk, who has a net worth of $203 billion, according to Time Magazine, is the richest man in the world, according to
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