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| | After conducting a poll if he should step down, with most agreeing with that, Musk tweeted the following on Dec 20, 2022:<ref>Elon Musk @elonmusk on Twitter, [https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1605372724800393216 Dec 20, 2022].</ref><ref>[https://www.npr.org/2022/12/20/1144182209/twitter-elon-musk-resigns Elon Musk says he will resign as Twitter CEO once he finds a replacement] ''NPR'', Dec 20, 2022.</ref> | | After conducting a poll if he should step down, with most agreeing with that, Musk tweeted the following on Dec 20, 2022:<ref>Elon Musk @elonmusk on Twitter, [https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1605372724800393216 Dec 20, 2022].</ref><ref>[https://www.npr.org/2022/12/20/1144182209/twitter-elon-musk-resigns Elon Musk says he will resign as Twitter CEO once he finds a replacement] ''NPR'', Dec 20, 2022.</ref> |
| | <blockquote>I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job! After that, I will just run the software & servers teams.</blockquote> | | <blockquote>I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job! After that, I will just run the software & servers teams.</blockquote> |
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| − | [[File:Pompeo Tweet.PNG|right|350px|thumb|On the night of January 8, 2021, during the purge of conservative voices by Big Tech on social media, U.S. Secretary of State [[Mike Pompeo]] posted this tweet.<ref>https://therightscoop.com/unreal-pompeo-makes-stunning-reveal-of-overnight-tech-purge-changes-on-twitter/</ref>]]
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| − | Under liberal control (before Oct 2022), Twitter allowed graphic images of [[child pornography]] and [[child sex trade|child sex trafficking]] on its platform.<ref>https://nypost.com/2021/01/21/twitter-sued-for-allegedly-refusing-to-remove-child-porn/</ref>
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| | ==Sale to Elon Musk== | | ==Sale to Elon Musk== |