Elon Musk Twitter Takeover
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Explained: Who is Sriram Krishnan, the Indian-origin investor, helping Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover?
Fp Explainers •Sriram Krishnan worked at Twitter as its senior director of product in 2017 where he helped grow the company. Elon Musk as ‘Chief Twit’ will now want to use Krishnan’s prior experience to bring about his changes to the platform
Explained: How Elon Musk is trying to avoid paying $122 million severance to Parag & other fired Twitter execs
Fp Explainers •Elon Musk is also planning to lay off more people by November 1 so that Twitter can avoid giving stock grants that are due to all employees of Twitter, on November 1, end of business hours.
Racial slurs on Twitter increased by 500 per cent after Elon Musk took over, platform blames trolling campaign
Mehul Das •Right after Elon Musk took over, usage of racial slurs went up by 500 per cent on the platform. Twitter says that this is a part of a concentrated effort to troll Elon Musk, Twitter, and Twitter users.
Elon Musk completes Twitter takeover. What changes will the billionaire introduce?
Fp Explainers •‘Chief Twit’ Elon Musk has long had ideas to make Twitter ‘maximum amazing’. With his takeover completed, the billionaire could make updates such as reinstating Donald Trump and defeating spam bots
'The bird is freed', says Elon Musk after taking over Twitter
Fp Staff •Soon after closing the deal to buy Twitter, Elon Musk fired at least four top executives. He accused them of misleading him and Twitter investors over the number of fake accounts on the social media platform
Free speech or hate speech?: Fears grow for Elon Musk's Twitter
•The world's richest man has signaled that, following his $44 billion takeover, he intends to reform what he sees as over-zealous policing of tweets.
Elon Musk calls himself a ‘free speech absolutist’. Is it yet another one of his Twitter jokes?
Fp Explainers •Elon Musk is desperate to become the poster boy of free speech as he goes for a Twitter takeover. But his track record suggests otherwise – he has fired employees and gone after journalists who are critical of him or Tesla
Explained: Why Elon Musk is hell-bent on a Twitter takeover
•Elon Musk believes Twitter is not living up to its potential as a ‘platform for free speech’. He says he does not want to make money off the micro-blogging platform