Twitter owner Elon Musk says he will step down as top manager of the social media platform as soon as a new boss is in place, reports Reuters. – I want to resign as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job! After that, I just want to hire the team that manages programming and servers, he writes on Twitter. On Sunday, Musk posted an open vote on Twitter where he wrote that he would withdraw if a majority of users wanted it. Photo: CHRIS DELMAS / AFP Within an hour, around 3.6 million people had voted – 58 percent of them wanted him to resign. After more than 17 million people had voted, the majority who wanted a new head of the website was 57 percent. Photo: Screenshot from Twitter Musk had said in advance that he would join after the result. – Doesn’t matter that much – I don’t think it matters that much. Even if he steps down as director, he will still pull the strings in the back room. PROBLEMATIC: Heidrun Åm believes that the vote for Musk is quite problematic from a democratic perspective. Photo: Elin Iversen / Press photo NTNU So says Heidrun Åm, associate professor of sociology at NTNU. Åm thinks it is deeply problematic that such a large platform is in private hands. She is also critical of the reconciliation Musk had earlier in the week. – We don’t know anything about whether people can vote multiple times, whether there are different robots involved, we also don’t know how they use the data and whether it has any consequences for those who press yes or no. All of this is actually quite problematic from a democratic perspective, she explains and adds: – Politics is not only about voters, it is also about good discussions in public, what is for and against, it is the public space and the exchange of words that are important. Storm There has been a storm around Twitter since Musk bought Tenesta in the autumn for 44 billion dollars. He has dismissed almost half of the employees and introduced a series of new rules, including user payments to get verified accounts. He has gone into detail management in a number of areas. In addition, he has cut back on those who weed out fake accounts and remove disinformation. Several have expressed concern that the safety of Twitter is threatened. He has also received strong criticism for inviting former President Donald Trump back. Trump was banned after storming Congress in January almost two years ago. Musk has also attracted many journalists. That after he closed the accounts of several well-known journalist profiles a few weeks ago. This applied to other journalists from The New York Times, Washington Post and CNN. After Musk announced that he was stepping down as CEO, another company he owns, Tesla, fell sharply on the stock market. Since Musk directed large parts of his attention to Twitter, several investors in the electric car company have been concerned about the lack of leadership in Tesla. When the American stock exchanges closed on Wednesday night, the share was at 137.8 dollars, which is around 1,360 kroner. At the year’s peak in September, the share was worth over 300 dollars, which is approx. NOK 2,970, according to NTB.
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