Elton John Takes Swipe at Twitter in Departure Announcement, Elon Musk Responds
And another one bites the dust.
Sir Elton John has joined the ranks of the thin-skinned celebrities who cannot bear to remain on a social media platform that doesn’t censor users with whose worldviews they disagree.
The Grammy winner made the announcement Friday in the same ironically unaware fashion in which so many of them have: on Twitter.
“All my life I’ve tried to use music to bring people together. Yet it saddens me to see how misinformation is now being used to divide our world,” John wrote on Twitter. Or someone did — John, a publicist, an unpaid intern, whoever.
“I’ve decided to no longer use Twitter, given their recent change in policy which will allow misinformation to flourish unchecked,” he added.
The responses he received were probably about what you’d expect — although perhaps not what John expected.
One of the more tongue-in-check came from the social media giant’s CEO himself, Elon Musk.
Others were more direct.
I’ll toss in two more, one because I simply can’t ignore a “Tombstone” reference when I have the opportunity not to:
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