{"id":871,"date":"2022-11-07T00:30:06","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T00:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funnyvideo.us\/?p=871"},"modified":"2022-11-07T00:30:06","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T00:30:06","slug":"gigi-hadid-deletes-cesspool-twitter-after-44-billion-takeover-by-elon-musk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/?p=871","title":{"rendered":"Gigi Hadid deletes &#8216;cesspool&#8217; Twitter after $44 billion takeover by Elon Musk"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Gigi Hadid\u00a0has quit Twitter after branding the social media network a &#8220;cesspool&#8221; following a multi-billion dollar takeover by Elon Musk.<\/h4>\n<p>Gigi, 27, announced her departure from the platform to her fans on\u00a0Instagram\u00a0on Saturday as she admitted her decision had been prompted by the $44 billion deal by the tech mogul.<\/p>\n<p>The supermodel took to her Instagram Stories to explain her decision to deactivate the account &#8220;due to its new leadership.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She wrote: &#8220;I deactivated my\u00a0Twitter\u00a0account today. For a long time, but especially with it&#8217;s new leadership, it&#8217;s becoming more and more of a cesspool of hatred and bigotry, and it&#8217;s not a place I want to be part of.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image--embedded\" data-orientation=\"portrait\" data-tmdatatrack-articleid=\"28424709\" data-tmdatatrack=\"inline-widget\" data-tmdatatrack-exists=\"true\" data-tmdatatrack-visible=\"true\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.dailystar.co.uk\/incoming\/article28424709.ece\/ALTERNATES\/n310p\/0_Stella-McCartney-Runway-Paris-Fashion-Week-Womenswear-SpringSummer-2023.jpg\" alt=\"Gigi Hadid\" data-tmdatatrack=\"inline-widget\" data-tmdatatrack-articleid=\"28424709\" data-tmdatatrack-exists=\"true\" data-tmdatatrack-visible=\"true\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"image--embedded\" data-orientation=\"portrait\" data-tmdatatrack-articleid=\"28424717\" data-tmdatatrack=\"inline-widget\" data-tmdatatrack-exists=\"true\" data-tmdatatrack-visible=\"true\">\n<div class=\"image--background\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.dailystar.co.uk\/incoming\/article28424717.ece\/ALTERNATES\/n310p\/0_GiGi-Hadid-deletes-cesspool-Twitter.jpg\" alt=\"Gigi Hadid\" data-tmdatatrack=\"inline-widget\" data-tmdatatrack-articleid=\"28424717\" data-tmdatatrack-exists=\"true\" data-tmdatatrack-visible=\"true\" \/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;Only sorry to the fans who I&#8217;ve loved connecting with for a decade via Twitter, but I can&#8217;t say it&#8217;s a safe place for anyone, nor a social platform that will do more good than harm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Alongside her post Gigi shared a screenshot of a tweet sent by Shannon Raj Singh where she informed her followers that the entire human rights team had been fired from Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>She admitted her pride in her work as she lamented the decision by the new owner.<\/p>\n<p>She wrote: &#8220;Yesterday was my last day at Twitter: The entire human rights team was cut from the company.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image--embedded\" data-orientation=\"landscape\" data-tmdatatrack-articleid=\"28424719\" data-tmdatatrack=\"inline-widget\" data-tmdatatrack-exists=\"true\" data-tmdatatrack-visible=\"true\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.dailystar.co.uk\/incoming\/article28424719.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s615b\/0_Heidi-Klums-Halloween-Party-2022.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1395px) 660px, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.dailystar.co.uk\/incoming\/article28424719.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s458b\/0_Heidi-Klums-Halloween-Party-2022.jpg 458w, https:\/\/i2-prod.dailystar.co.uk\/incoming\/article28424719.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s615b\/0_Heidi-Klums-Halloween-Party-2022.jpg 615w\" alt=\"Gigi Hadid\" data-tmdatatrack=\"inline-widget\" data-tmdatatrack-articleid=\"28424719\" data-tmdatatrack-exists=\"true\" data-tmdatatrack-visible=\"true\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;I am enormously proud of the work we did to implement the UN Guiding Principles on Business &amp; Human Rights, to protect those at-risk in global conflicts &amp; crises including Ethiopia, Afghanistan, and , and to defend the needs of those particularly at risk of human rights abuse by virtue of their social media presence, such as journalists &amp; human rights defenders.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gigi&#8217;s decision to leave comes amid a perceived exodus from the social media site after data firm Bot Sentinel claimed that Twitter may have lost over a million users since Elon took the reins at the firm.<\/p>\n<p>The data indicates that while some users have been suspended from the company, others have deactivated their accounts in protest at the changes already taking place.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image--embedded\" data-orientation=\"portrait\" data-tmdatatrack-articleid=\"28424721\" data-tmdatatrack=\"inline-widget\" data-tmdatatrack-exists=\"true\" data-tmdatatrack-visible=\"true\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.dailystar.co.uk\/incoming\/article28424721.ece\/ALTERNATES\/n310p\/0_The-Daily-Front-Rows-9th-Annual-Fashion-Media-Awards.jpg\" alt=\"Gigi Hadid\" data-tmdatatrack=\"inline-widget\" data-tmdatatrack-articleid=\"28424721\" data-tmdatatrack-exists=\"true\" data-tmdatatrack-visible=\"true\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"image--embedded\" data-orientation=\"landscape\" data-tmdatatrack-articleid=\"28424720\" data-tmdatatrack=\"inline-widget\" data-tmdatatrack-exists=\"true\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.dailystar.co.uk\/incoming\/article28424720.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s615b\/0_GiGi-Hadid-deletes-cesspool-Twitter.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1395px) 660px, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.dailystar.co.uk\/incoming\/article28424720.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s458b\/0_GiGi-Hadid-deletes-cesspool-Twitter.jpg 458w, https:\/\/i2-prod.dailystar.co.uk\/incoming\/article28424720.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s615b\/0_GiGi-Hadid-deletes-cesspool-Twitter.jpg 615w\" alt=\"Gigi Hadid\" data-tmdatatrack=\"inline-widget\" data-tmdatatrack-articleid=\"28424720\" data-tmdatatrack-exists=\"true\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Gigi was hugely popular on the site with over 10,536,819 followers of her account eager to see her updates, with her profile now saying &#8220;this account doesn&#8217;t exist,&#8221; when they try to view it.<\/p>\n<p>Many other celebrities and activists have also threatened to leave Twitter, especially after Elon announced plans to introduce a subscription charge to make the company profitable after years of it making no money.<\/p>\n<p>The plan &#8211; which will see users charged $8-a-month to be verified with a blue tick &#8211; has caused a backlash from users who feel they have earned their recognition without having to pay for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gigi Hadid\u00a0has quit Twitter after branding the social media network a &#8220;cesspool&#8221; following a multi-billion dollar takeover by Elon Musk. 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