Elon Musk has pledged to step down as head of Twitter if the outcomes of a web based ballot on the social media platform dictate it.
Musk, whose possession of the corporate has been riddled with controversy, posted the ballot this morning on his personal account.
He stated he would abide by regardless of the consequence was.
It is so far unclear what "stepping down" would entail - Musk would presumably stay the proprietor of the corporate he purchased for $US 44 billion ($65.77 billion) in October.
He might additionally stay on on the firm in a lower-level position.
That is all assuming the ballot goes towards him. Whereas Musk has raised an outcry throughout his quick tenure on the prime of Twitter, he additionally has loads of defenders.
Selections reminiscent of eradicating the app's COVID-19 misinformation coverage, and welcoming banned former US President Donald Trump to rejoin the platform, have pissed off many who imagine Musk's self-proclaimed free speech absolutism is a canopy for a right-wing agenda.
On the identical time, individuals who noticed Trump's ban for example of censorship have applauded the choice.
The ex-president himself has opted to not return, as an alternative persevering with to submit on his personal faltering platform, TruthSocial.
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Elon Musk's personal fortunes have foundered after his takeover, shedding the world's richest man title to Louis Vuitton head honcho Bernard Arnault.
Twitter just lately suspended the accounts of quite a few journalists who had reported on Musk, with him falsely claiming that the journalists had violated his new "doxxing" coverage by sharing his stay location, amounting to what he described as "assassination coordinates."
Nevertheless, CNN reported that one among their banned journalists, Donie O'Sullivan, had achieved no such factor.
In the present day, it was introduced that Twitter would start to ban accounts that attempted to direct folks to different social media companies and different platforms.