Elon Musk asked Twitter users whether he should stay CEO. When a clear majority said go, he pondered which votes should count, before saying he’ll quit as CEO “as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job!” Sure thing, Elon.
We hope Musk’s chaotic and disastrous run atop Twitter not only punctures the myth of the former eBay and current Tesla CEO as a genius, but that it takes many other would-be masters of the universe down a peg or three.
When Musk took Twitter private, he predicted he could turn the oft-criticized but actually pretty well-run social media platform into a profitable machine that was also far more open to a broader range of speech, including lies and hate speech. Musk, siding with right-wing critics of supposedly far-left Twitter leadership, insisted that a new era of openness would create a fairer and more lively community in which hardly any type of expression was actively suppressed.
