If the first five days were any indication, Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter is going to be a doozy
Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photos: Getty Images . On Monday, the company approved Musk’s deal to acquire it for $44 billion, sending many users into a tailspin over how the app may change to fit his self-styled “free-speech absolutism.” The richest man in the world, as is his nature, responded by trolling most everyone and complaining about the left.
At an all-hands meeting, Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal was unable to provide much detail aside from saying there would be no immediate layoffs. “Once the deal closes, we don’t know what direction this company will go in,” he said. On Twitter itself, Musk wasn’t too concerned with this financial situation, which could stop him from running wild with the moderation policies at a company that never really figured out how to make money. Instead, he tweeted about his haters:
With the above tweet, it’s possible Musk may have run afoul of the deal’s terms, which state that he cannot “disparage the company or any of its representatives” while the sale is going through. The woman in the above meme is Twitter’s legal head, Vijaya Gadde, whom Musk accused of perpetuating what he sees as liberal bias at the company. In response, former CEO Dick Costolo pushed back: