ELON MUSK FIRES TOP EXECS AS HE TAKES CONTROL OF TWITTER– Tesla CEO Elon Musk is officially the CEO of Twitter. The deal was finalized with the firing of its CEO and Morality Police Safety Officer. He followed up the firing with a tweet saying, “spoiler alert.”
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Elon Musk finally owns Twitter. What next? Get the latest – news.google.com
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Elon Musk has taken control of Twitter and ousted the CEO, chief financial officer and the company’s general counsel, two people familiar with the deal said Thursday night.
The people wouldn’t say if all the paperwork for the deal, originally valued at $44 billion, had been signed or if the deal has closed. But they said Musk is in charge of the social media platform and has fired CEO Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal and General Counsel Vijaya Gadde. Neither person wanted to be identified because of the sensitive nature of the personnel moves.
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Elon Musk officially takes over Twitter after closing US$44-billion deal: reports – National – globalnews.ca
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Billionaire Elon Musk is now officially in charge of Twitter and has fired several top executives after closing his US$44-billion deal to buy the social media company on Thursday, according to multiple reports.
The Associated Press, Reuters and the Washington Post all reported the news of Musk’s takeover, citing anonymous sources who were familiar with the move.
CEO Parag Agrawal, chief financial officer Ned Segal and legal policy chief Vijaya Gadde were escorted out of Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco after the deal was completed, the reports said.
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Musk fires top Twitter executives after closing $44bn deal – www.moneyweb.co.za
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Elon Musk completed his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter Inc., according to people familiar with the matter, putting the world’s richest man in charge of the struggling social network after six months of public and legal wrangling over the deal.
Among Musk’s first moves: changing the leadership. Departures include Twitter Chief Executive Officer Parag Agrawal; Vijaya Gadde, the head of legal, policy and trust; Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal, who joined Twitter in 2017; and Sean Edgett, who has been general counsel at Twitter since 2012, according to people familiar with the matter. Edgett was escorted out of the building, said two of the people, who asked not to be identified because the information isn’t public.
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Elon Musk Takes Over Twitter, Fires CEO Parag Agrawal and ‘Trust and Safety’ Censorship Queen Vijaya Gadde – www.breitbart.com
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Elon Musk officially became Twitter’s owner late on Thursday as his $44 billion deal to take over the firm closed. Musk promptly fired top executives at the company, including CEO Parag Agrawal, CEO Ned Segal, and Vijaya Gadde, the “trust and safety” lead notorious for her fanatical left-wing censorship campaign.
The Washington Post reports that on Thursday, Elon Musk arrived at Twitter offices to officially confirm his company takeover after the $44 billion purchase deal closed. Musk had previously stated plans to cut Twitter’s staff of approximately 7,500 employees to just over 2,000.
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Elon Musk Teases ‘Spoiler Alert’ After Cleaning House at Twitter – www.dailysignal.com
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Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter became final Friday, and the new boss has already implemented some major changes — and teased a few more.
Musk fired several Twitter executives, ousting both the recent CEO and the woman who was reportedly responsible for the permanent ban on President Donald Trump.
The new boss ousted chief executive officer Parag Agrawal, chief financial officer Ned Segal, top legal and policy executive Vijaya Gadde, and general counsel Sean Edgett, The Wall Street Journal reported.
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Elon Musk Owns Twitter, Fires Executives, as the Left Acts Like the World is Ending – legalinsurrection.com
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Elon Musk owns Twitter.
the bird is freed
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 28, 2022
He supposedly already ousted CEO Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal, and Head of Legal Policy, Trust Safety Vijaya Gadde
Conservatives celebrated. Liberals ranted.
I’m not excited about Musk taking over because he’s not a friend to conservatives or liberals. Just remember that. Despite what he says, Musk is in it for himself. He loves to make money, like everyone else, so don’t be shocked if he sells in a few years.
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The Crying Begins After Elon Musk Drops the Hammer at Twitter – RedState – redstate.com
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On Thursday, Elon Musk finally closed his deal to buy Twitter after months of twists and turns. The deal seemed as if it was dead just a few months prior, but here we sit, with one of the world’s largest (and most politically active) social media platforms now in the hands of a free-speech absolutist.
Musk wasted no time before dropping the hammer. He walked into the company’s San Franciso-based headquarters and started firing all the partisan hacks who had done their best to quash speech over the last several years. Perhaps the most satisfying firing was of Vijaya Gadde, who made the decision to censor the Hunter Biden story just prior to the 2020 election.
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Twitter’s Top Executives Set To Exit With $100 Million Payout As Elon Musk Takes Over – www.ndtv.com
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Three of Twitter Inc.’s top executives who were said to be fired after Elon Musk completed his takeover are poised to collect more than $100 million in severance and payouts of previously granted equity awards.
Chief Executive Officer Parag Agrawal, who stepped into the role less than a year ago, is eligible to receive roughly $50 million, according to calculations by Bloomberg News. Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal and Vijaya Gadde, head of legal, policy and trust, are in line for about $37 million and $17 million each, respectively.
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Elon Musk rules Twitter and leftists are upset. – www.louderwithcrowder.com
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….Musk’s first order of business was to fire all the executives. Most notably, Twitter’s top lawyer, executive, and speech cop Vagina Goode. I don’t feel like looking up how to spell her real name, so I’m going with what Alex Jones calls her. You know who I’m talking about. Vagina was the one behind kicking people who had opposing viewpoints off of the platform. Now, she gone.
The question now is what leftists upset that the bird app will allow differing opinions are going to do now. Demoted tech jounalismer Taylor Lorenz, who will need to find other ways to deplatform people to help her stay young, set the stage.
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Donald Trump says Twitter is ‘in sane hands’ now that Elon Musk owns it – www.businessinsider.co.za
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Former President Donald Trump said Twitter is “in sane hands” now that Elon Musk has officially purchased the social media platform.
“I am very happy that Twitter is now in sane hands, and will no longer be run by Radical Left Lunatics and Maniacs that truly hate our country,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Friday morning. “Twitter must now work hard to rid itself of all of the bots and fake accounts that have hurt it so badly. It will be much smaller, but better.”
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