Elon Musk Twitter Takeover: Gigi Hadid Quits Platform, Says It’s Not A “Safe Place”
Following Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, Gigi Hadid and several other celebrities have quit the micro-blogging platform.
Supermodel Gigi Hadid is among several celebrities who aren’t happy with Tesla founder Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter. Ever since Elon Musk bought the social media platform for USD 44 billion, so much has happened. Musk has already made changes to the company, including mass layoffs and changing how the social media platform handles verification of accounts. Many popular personalities including Hadid, Shonda Rhimes and Whoopi Goldberg have expressed their disappointment over Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover by quitting the micro-blogging platform.
Gigi Hadid took to her Instagram account to announce that she’s deactivating her Twitter account, telling her fans that it’s becoming a “cesspool of hate & bigotry”.
“I deactivated my Twitter account today. For a long time, but especially with its new leadership, it's becoming more and more of a cesspool of hate & bigotry, and its not a place I want to be a part of,” she wrote on her Instagram Stories.
She added, "Only sorry to the fans, who I've loved connecting with for a decade via Twitter, but I can't say it's a safe place for anyone, nor a social platform that will do more good than harm.”
Apart from Gigi Hadid, TV producer Shonda Rhimes also quit Twitter.
Not hanging around for whatever Elon has planned. Bye.
— shonda rhimes (@shondarhimes) October 29, 2022
Singer Sara Bareilles echoed similar sentiments.
Welp. It’s been fun Twitter. I’m out. See you on other platforms, peeps. Sorry, this one’s just not for me.
— Sara Bareilles (@SaraBareilles) October 30, 2022
TV host Whoopi Goldberg announced her decision to quit Twitter on her show ‘The View'. The presenter said the platform had become so “messy”, as per Variety.
Many other celebrities including Toni Braxton, George Takei, Josh Gad, and Rob Reiner have spoken up over Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover.
