Elon Musk reportedly finalized his $44 billion takeover of social media platform Twitter on Oct. 27 and has started his tenure at the company by cleaning house at the upper executive level.
According to sources from multiple outlets, CEO Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal, and head of legal and policy Vijaya Gadde are reported to have been sacked with Musk accusing them of misleading him over the number of spam accounts on the platform.
Agrawal and Segal were “escorted out” of the company’s headquarters when the deal closed according to Reuters sources.
the bird is freed
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 28, 2022
Musk had previously attempted to back out of the deal to buy Twitter in July accusing the company of making “false and misleading representations” regarding the number of spam and fake accounts.
With the deal now closed, Musk looks to change the platform into a bastion of free speech, change the algorithms to prevent…
