Elon Musk officially takes over Twitter, reportedly wastes no time firing top executives

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Apparently already ousted are CEO Parag Agrawal and chief financial officer Ned Segal, among others.



(LifeSiteNews) — SpaceX founder and Tesla CEO Elon Musk officially took the reins of Big Tech giant Twitter on Thursday, immediately firing top executives at the company according to reports.

Three people familiar with the matter told The Washington Post on Thursday that one of Musk’s first actions, after his $44 billion deal to purchase the company closed late October 27, was to fire a slate of high-ranking Twitter executives including now former-CEO Parag Agrawal, who has drawn the ire of conservatives for overseeing censorship and account-banning in the alleged interest of fostering “healthy conversation.”


Among those fired and “hastily shuttled from the building,” according to the report, were Agrawal, chief financial officer Ned Segal, and Vijaya Gadde, “head of legal policy, trust, and safety”, who was among the Twitter executives involved in the decision to ban former U.S. President Donald Trump from the platform. Musk is also said to have fired Twitter general counsel Sean Edgett.

The world’s richest man, Musk has been an outspoken critic of online censorship and a proponent of free speech.

On Wednesday, Musk posted a video of himself arriving at Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco while carrying a sink, joking, “let that sink in!”

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