The actress spoke about how significantly better the billions of dollars spent on Twitter would've been had they gone to an excellent trigger like UNICEF.
Alyssa Milano was one of many many stars upset about Elon Musk’s choice to purchase Twitter and the current actions he’s taken on the social platform. The actress and activist, 49, mentioned that fairly than take the cash to “destroy” Twitter, Elon, 51, ought to’ve put the money in the direction of a charitable group. Regardless of returning her Tesla, she did clarify that she was going to maintain preventing to share her political opinions on the platform throughout an interview on The View on Tuesday, November 29.
When requested about her current announcement that she returned her Tesla, the Who’s The Boss star defined that she had made the selection after a report surfaced that alleged that Elon had uncovered himself and propositioned a SpaceX flight attendant by Enterprise Insider. The billionaire has denied the allegations. As one of many main figures within the Me Too Motion, Alyssa mentioned she couldn’t maintain the automobile. “When he was accused of sexual misconduct and paid out $250,000 to this particular person, I made a decision I can’t reside in that hypocrisy of driving that automobile when that occurred,” she mentioned.
Alyssa continued and mentioned that she might solely think about the nice that will’ve been completed if the SpaceX CEO had put the cash in the direction of a noble trigger. “I’m so aggravated with these billionaires, except a couple of, however particularly Elon Musk. You purchase Twitter to destroy it for $40 billion. $40 billion. Elon Musk, think about if he donated that cash to UNICEF. He would change the world. There could be no starvation,” she mentioned.
Whoopi Goldberg, who has left Twitter, agreed with Alyssa and mentioned he might nonetheless make these sorts of donations. “He might go in his pocket and donate that cash,” she mentioned.
When requested about why she’s stayed on Twitter, Alyssa talked about that she didn’t really feel like a lot had modified for her personally, as a result of she’s “at all times on the receiving finish of trolls.” Nonetheless, she mentioned that she didn’t need to extra progressive political beliefs to vanish from the web site, as extra dangerous religion accountsrun wild on it. Whoopi disagreed, however the actress defined that she nonetheless needed her voice to be heard on the platform. “We will’t cede that territory. It’s like a turf struggle now,” she mentioned. “If we’re not representing our aspect of the political discourse, aren’t we simply saying, ‘Y’know what? You'll be able to have Twitter.'”