Twitter CEO Elon Musk is set to step down as head of the company after making a poll asking users to vote on the future of his role.
Musk, who recently paid $44 billion to acquire the company, said that he would abide by the results of the poll in which 57.5% of respondents said they would favour him stepping down as head of the platform.
Over 17,000,000 Twitter users voted in the poll which was run for 24 hours
Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 18, 2022
Musk recently banned journalists after attempts were made to doxx the multi billionaire by sharing information about the live location of his private jet online.
Twitter has also been releasing information on allegations that former Twitter executives oversaw the suppression of accounts associated with right wing commentators.
Journalist Bari Weiss stated that blacklists were built “in secret” and “without informing users.”
Weiss had tweeted that “A new [Twitter Files] investigation reveals that teams of Twitter employees build blacklists, prevent disfavored tweets from trending, and actively limit the visibility of entire accounts or even trending topics — all in secret, without informing users,”.