Elon Musk completes Twitter purchase and fires key executives

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Trump, banned from the social network, has celebrated the news as the company is now in “the hands of a sensible person” and not “the madmen of the radical left”. The EU has already warned the tycoon to respect European standards.

Euskaraz irakurri: Elon Muskek Twitterren erosketa gauzatu eta zuzendari nagusiak kaleratu ditu

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Thursday completed the purchase of the social network Twitter for a value of $44,000 million (a similar amount in euros) and carried out the resignation of its key executives.

In this way, the company’s shareholders will receive $54.20 for each share and Twitter will become the property of the tycoon, who has already announced his plans to change the social network’s content moderation policy that is committed to “a greater freedom of expressionsaid the CNN network.

Musk has repeatedly expressed his disagreement with the social network’s practice of permanently banning users who repeatedly violate its policies from accessing the network, raising the possibility that users, such as the former US president Donald Trumpback to the platform.

Precisely the former president has applauded the billionaire’s takeover of Twitter and confirmed that the social network, from which he was banned last January for inciting violence, is now in “the hands of a sensible person” and not “the hands of the madmen of the radical left”.

In his congratulatory message, the former president recommended that the South African tycoon “work hard to get rid of all the automatic and fake accounts that have caused so much damage.” From his perspective, the result will be the appearance of a new Twitter, “smaller, but better”.

Tesla’s CEO asked Twitter for the exact number of fake accounts on the platform and how the company should monitor and remove those accounts.

For this reason, and after months of showing his annoyance at the way the social network was run, the tycoon has fired the CEO of TwitterParag Agrawal, as well as two other senior officials, has been collected by CNN.

The decision comes just a day after Musk announced to staffers that withdrawn from laying off 75% of employeesas I initially thought.

European Commissioner for the Internal Market, Thierry Breton, warned Musk this Friday after confirming the purchase of Twitter with the message “the bird has been released” on the same social network, that “the bird” must “fly” according to the laws of the European Union.

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Source: EITB

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