Gigi Hadid quits Twitter as it isn’t ‘protected place’ after Elon Musk takeover

By IANS

LOS ANGELES: Supermodel Gigi Hadid has introduced that she stop Twitter because it’s now not a “safe place” for anybody after Elon Musk purchased the platform for $44 billion.

On the heels of Twitter mass layoffs, the 27-year-old supermodel turned to her Instagram Story to let her 76 million followers know that she’s now not on the micro-blogging platform. She even referred to as the social media web site “cesspool of hate & bigotry”, studies aceshowbiz.com.

“For a long time, but especially with its new leadership,” Gigi wrote of Elon, “it’s becoming more and more of a cesspool of hate & bigotry, and its (sic) not a place I want to be a part (sic) of.”

Gigi added an apology to her followers on the platform, writing that she “loved connecting” with them “for a decade”.

“I can’t stay it’s a safe place for anyone, nor a social platform that will do more good than harm,” she added.

Alongside her assertion, Gigi included Human Rights Counsel Shannon Raj Singh’s tweet about being laid off from the tech large.

Shannon’s publish learn: “Yesterday was my last day at Twitter: the entire Human Rights team has been cut from the company. I am enormously proud of the work we did to implement the UN Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights, to protect those at-risk in global conflicts & crises including Ethiopia.”

Twitter fired roughly half of its workforce on November 4 with an e-mail to workers explaining the cuts had been “necessary to ensure the company’s success moving forward”.

A handful of staff moved shortly to file a category motion lawsuit in federal courtroom in San Francisco on behalf of Twitter employees, studies aceshowbiz.com.

The paperwork alleged that Twitter is letting go of workers with out satisfactory discover, in violation of California and federal employment legislation. The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification act, or WARN, requires at the least a 60-day discover earlier than conducting mass layoffs.

Defending his determination, Musk, who introduced that he’ll cost $8 a month for verified customers who’ve blue tick, stated that “there is no choice when the company is losing over $4M/day”.

The CEO of SpaceX and Tesla additional defined that anybody who “exited was offered 3 months of severance, which is 50 per cent more than legally required”.

Aside from Gigi, many well-known names have additionally determined to stop the platform, together with Sara Bareilles, Toni Braxton, Mick Foley and ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ screenwriter Shonda Rhimes, since Musk formally grew to become the proprietor and CEO of Twitter on October 27.

LOS ANGELES: Supermodel Gigi Hadid has introduced that she stop Twitter because it’s now not a “safe place” for anybody after Elon Musk purchased the platform for $44 billion.
On the heels of Twitter mass layoffs, the 27-year-old supermodel turned to her Instagram Story to let her 76 million followers know that she’s now not on the micro-blogging platform. She even referred to as the social media web site “cesspool of hate & bigotry”, studies aceshowbiz.com.
“For a long time, but especially with its new leadership,” Gigi wrote of Elon, “it’s becoming more and more of a cesspool of hate & bigotry, and its (sic) not a place I want to be a part (sic) of.”
Gigi added an apology to her followers on the platform, writing that she “loved connecting” with them “for a decade”.
“I can’t stay it’s a safe place for anyone, nor a social platform that will do more good than harm,” she added.
Alongside her assertion, Gigi included Human Rights Counsel Shannon Raj Singh’s tweet about being laid off from the tech large.
Shannon’s publish learn: “Yesterday was my last day at Twitter: the entire Human Rights team has been cut from the company. I am enormously proud of the work we did to implement the UN Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights, to protect those at-risk in global conflicts & crises including Ethiopia.”Twitter fired roughly half of its workforce on November 4 with an e-mail to workers explaining the cuts had been “necessary to ensure the company’s success moving forward”.
A handful of staff moved shortly to file a category motion lawsuit in federal courtroom in San Francisco on behalf of Twitter employees, studies aceshowbiz.com.
The paperwork alleged that Twitter is letting go of workers with out satisfactory discover, in violation of California and federal employment legislation. The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification act, or WARN, requires at the least a 60-day discover earlier than conducting mass layoffs.
Defending his determination, Musk, who introduced that he’ll cost $8 a month for verified customers who’ve blue tick, stated that “there is no choice when the company is losing over $4M/day”.
The CEO of SpaceX and Tesla additional defined that anybody who “exited was offered 3 months of severance, which is 50 per cent more than legally required”.
Aside from Gigi, many well-known names have additionally determined to stop the platform, together with Sara Bareilles, Toni Braxton, Mick Foley and ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ screenwriter Shonda Rhimes, since Musk formally grew to become the proprietor and CEO of Twitter on October 27.