Elon Musk has consolidated its power in the social network Twitter after officially dissolving the company’s 9-member board of directors.
After the action, revealed in the files of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, Musk is the only director of Twitter.
To the power
The arrival of Elon Musk a Twitter has caused a stir after materializing last Thursday after months of cancellation attempts.
The nine fired directors include former board chairman Bret Taylor and former chief executive officer Parag Agrawal. Since these characters had already been fired days agothe dissolution was an act to be expected.
US media are also reporting that Musk has been bringing in high-profile allies to work on Twitterincluding tech investor Jason Calacanis, who changed his bio to “meme boss” on the platform and posted a photo of a coffee cup displaying a logo from Twitter.
Musk is generally believed to wants to eliminate a large number of jobs in the company.
first changes
Elon Musk is already causing a stir with its possible updates to the social network.
The most notorious is charge $20 to verified accounts to keep your badge.
The next was to announce that same Friday an upcoming “content moderation council” that will include “diverse points of view” and that, as long as it does not exist, “there will be no major decisions on content or reestablishment of accounts.”
Musk has not currently commented on the dismissal of the board of directors, but he did joke about the possible return of former President Donald Trump to Twitter. “If I had a dollar for every time someone asks me if Trump is coming back on this platform, Twitter I would be minting money”
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