Twitter is now an Elon Musk company

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Elon Musk, Twitter’s most important shitposter, has added the company to his business empire after months of legal skirmishes, according to CNBC, The Washington Post. and Insider. He celebrated by firing executives.

Musk fired Parag Agrawal, who succeeded Jack Dorsey as Twitter CEO, and chief financial officer Ned Segal, both of who were in the building at the time and escorted out by security, according to Reuters. Vijaya Gadde, the company’s policy chief whom Musk had publicly criticized was also ousted. Sean Edgett, the general counsel, is gone too, The New York Times reports. (Bloomberg says security escorted him out, as well.) Chief customer officer Sarah Personette was also fired, Insider reports.

The execs received handsome...

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