Twitter users have voted that the current chief executive officer (CEO) of Twitter, Elon Musk, should step down after the billionaire ran a poll on his future.
Recall that about 12 hours ago, Elon Musk posted an opinion poll on his Twitter handle, asking Twitter users if he should step down as head of Twitter, while assuring that he will abide by the results of the poll. About 17.5 million people voted in the poll on Monday.
A total of 57.5 per cent voted “yes” that he should step down, while 43 per cent said he should continue as the CEO of the microblogging platform.
One of the Twitter users known as @MoonMatt, who voted against Musk, said, “I really hope you do step down as you are clearly unfit to run Twitter. You impose your personal beliefs onto millions of people/users who trusted you to champion freedom of speech.
“It is very sad to see what you have done here, ruined many peoples hope for the future,” he added.
Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion. The technology tycoon, who also runs Tesla and Space X, has faced much criticism since taking over the site.
Musk was yet to comment since the poll closed. Even if he were to resign as chief executive, he would remain as Twitter’s owner.
There has been a flurry of controversial changes at Twitter since Musk bought the social media site.
He has fired about half of its staff and attempted a rollout of Twitter’s paid-for verification feature before putting it on pause. The feature was relaunched last week.
He has also been criticised for his approach to content moderation, with some civil liberties groups accusing him of taking steps that will increase hate speech and misinformation.
On Friday, Musk was condemned by the United Nations and European Union over Twitter’s decision to suspend some journalists who cover the social media firm.
The UN tweeted that media freedom is “not a toy”, while the EU threatened Twitter with sanctions.
