There’s no longer any doubt: It’s time for anyone who’s not a QAnon believer or MAGA hat-wearing adherent of the far right to stop doing anything that boosts Elon Musk’s profit and power. If you’re on Twitter, leave. If you’re looking to buy an electric vehicle, don’t get a Tesla.
That may seem extreme, but a growing number of people and institutions have already left Twitter, from celebrities like Shonda Rhimes, Whoopi Goldberg and Elton John to institutions like the University of California, Santa Cruz and the Boston University School of Public Health.
The final straw for Boston University seems to have been a Musk tweet in December that both insulted transgender people and called for the prosecution of federal infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci. The public health school’s dean rightly called the tweet “demeaning and potentially dangerous.”
