Elon Musk has taken control of Twitter and ousted its top executives late Thursday, putting one of the world’s premier venues for global dialogue in the hands of the world’s richest man.
Following the takeover, Musk tweeted, “the bird is freed,” referring to the company’s renowned avian logo.
He quickly fired CEO Parag Agrawal, as well as the company’s CFO and director of safety, according to the Washington Post and CNBC, citing unnamed sources.
Musk tweeted earlier in the day that he was buying Twitter “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.”
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Twitter did not immediately reply to a request for comment on the departure of its top executives, but the platform’s co-founder Biz Stone thanked the trio — Agrawal, Ned Segal and Vijaya Gadde — for their “collective contribution to Twitter.”
Agrawal previously went to court to force Tesla CEO Elon Musk accountable to the terms of a transaction he had tried to avoid.Jamb Result
The takeover came only hours before Musk’s court-ordered deadline to finalise his on-again, off-again arrangement to buy the social media network.
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