Gigi Hadid is following Amber Heard’s footsteps. The supermodel has introduced that she stop Twitter because it’s 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 not on the micro-blogging platform.
She even known as the social media web site “cesspool of hate & bigotry”. “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 big. Shannon’s submit 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.”
For the unversed, actress Amber Heard was reported to have deleted her Twitter account, simply days after her former beau Elon Musk’s controversial takeover. Heard, who beforehand posted underneath the deal with @realamberheard, is not seen on the microblogging web site. The actress was beforehand in a relationship with the billionaire businessman for round a yr, earlier than he began courting musician Grimes.
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Twitter fired roughly half of its workforce on November 4 with an e mail to workers explaining the cuts have 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, experiences aceshowbiz.com.
The paperwork alleged that Twitter is letting go of workers with out ample discover, in violation of California and federal employment legislation. The Employee Adjustment and Retraining Notification act, or WARN, requires a minimum of a 60-day discover earlier than conducting mass layoffs.
Defending his choice, Musk, who introduced that he’ll cost $8 a month for verified customers who’ve blue tick, mentioned 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”.
Apart from Gigi, many well-known names have additionally determined to stop the platform, together with Sara Bareilles, Toni Braxton, Mick Foley and ‘Gray’s Anatomy’ screenwriter Shonda Rhimes, since Musk formally grew to become the proprietor and CEO of Twitter on October 27.
