Elon Musk is set to step down as the CEO of Twitter after promising to abide by the results of a poll asking if he should give up his position.
QUICK FACTS:
- Twitter CEO Elon Musk is expected to give up his role after posting a poll late Sunday night asking if he should step down as head of the social media company.
- “Should I step down as head of Twitter?” Musk asked. “I will abide by the results of this poll.”
- The final result revealed that a 57.5% to 42.5% majority wanted him to leave his position.
- “The question is not finding a CEO, the question is finding a CEO who can keep Twitter alive,” Musk tweeted after.
- Some speculated that Musk may already have a new CEO in mind, a pick that would terrify liberals more than him being in charge.
- “This leads me to believe you have someone in mind that the lefties will hate even more,” one user said in response to Musk’s tweets.
ELON MUSK ON STEPPING DOWN FROM HIS ROLE AS TWITTER CEO:
“As the saying goes, be careful what you wish, as you might get it,” MUSK SAID.
BACKGROUND:
- Last week, Musk hinted he would release Twitter files related to White House Coronavirus Response Team leader Dr. Anthony Fauci and the COVID pandemic.
- “My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci,” Musk tweeted.
- When asked if he was going to release the files on COVID and the “suppression of what has turned out to be factual information,” Musk responded, “Oh it is coming bigtime.”
- Part 1 of the Twitter Files revealed how the social media company censored the Hunter Biden laptop story leading up to the 2020 presidential election. Part 2 looked into the company’s large-scale shadow-ban and blacklist policies against conservative users. Part 3 exposed Twitter executives scheming on how to limit and then permanently ban former President Donald Trump.
