Vijaya Gadde, a key executive and censorship advocate at Twitter, has been receiving the brunt of conservative in an online attack bolstered by Elon Musk
Vijaya Gadde (L) met PM Narendra Modi with her colleagues on a trip to India in 2018. Pic/Vijaya Gadde's official Twitter account
The sale of social media platform Twitter to Tesla chief Elon Musk for US $44 billion was confirmed on Monday. To say this announcement sparked a storm on social media would be an understatement, as liberals and conservatives took to the site to debate policies and what this takeover means for public discourse.
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India-born Vijaya Gadde, Twitter’s top lawyer, is reported to have broken down as she expressed her concerns about the change in ownership, during a virtual meeting with her team. Gadde has played a key role in policy and legal issues such as banning political advertising and blocking former US President Donald Trump from the platform
On April 27, political podcast host Saagar Enjeti tweeted how Gadde was upset by the takeover.
Vijaya Gadde, the top censorship advocate at Twitter who famously gaslit the world on Joe Rogan's podcast and censored the Hunter Biden laptop story, is very upset about the @elonmusk takeover pic.twitter.com/WCYmzNEMNt
— Saagar Enjeti (@esaagar) April 26, 2022
This tweet received a response from Elon Musk, wherein he chose to criticise a decision (overseen by Gadde) to temporarily block a New York Post story. Although Musk has previously criticised Twitter’s actions, this is the first instance of him publicly targeting an executive.
Suspending the Twitter account of a major news organization for publishing a truthful story was obviously incredibly inappropriate
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 26, 2022
Musk’s attack gave a free rein to his supporters and conservatives to troll Gadde relentlessly, even resorting to racist remarks. Twitter users also called for her termination once Musk takes charge.
Thank you Elon, you are dismissing Vijaya Gadde. She has been single handedly responsible for violation of constitutional right to FREE SPEECH of people.
— Nitin Meshram (@nitinmeshram_) April 27, 2022
A secret to protect rights of people on Twitter: don’t keep any Indian origin employee. They are essentially anti democracy.
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