The former chief executive of Twitter has accused Elon Musk of making one of the website’s senior executives a “target of harassment and threats”. Dick Costolo used Twitter to respond to a meme posted by Mr Musk featuring Vijaya Gadde.
The Tesla boss appeared to be using Ms Gadde – Twitter’s head of legal, policy and trust – to suggest the company had a “left-wing bias”.
Mr Costolo – a CEO of the tech giant between 2010 and 2015 – replied to Mr Musk: “What’s going on? You’re making an executive at the company you just bought the target of harassment and threats.” In a subsequent tweet, the former Twitter boss wrote: “Bullying is not leadership.”
