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However, mere hours after Musk completed his $44 billion purchase of the platform and fired its top executives, it looks like West is back online.
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If Musk is behind the reinstatement of West's account, then this is just the latest in a string of controversial moves by the Tesla boss since he finalized his deal to purchase Twitter.
According to a report by Sky News, the Space X founder began his leadership by reportedly firing top executives, including CEO Parag Agrawal, chief financial officer Ned Segal, and legal affairs and policy chief Vijaya Gadde.
Musk claims the top executives misled him over the number of spam accounts on Twitter. It has also been reported that Agrawal and Segal were in the company's San Francisco head office when the deal closed - and that they were escorted out of the building.
the bird is freed
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 28, 2022
Meanwhile, newly crowned Twitter boss Musk celebrated his takeover fittingly with a tweet. "The bird is free," he wrote to his 110.5 million followers.
He also changed his Twitter bio to "Chief Twit" and marked his location as "Twitter HQ".
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On Tuesday (October 25), Adidas announced via a statement on its website that the company was ending its partnership with the hip-hop star and dubbed his comments: "unacceptable, hateful, and dangerous".
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