Gigi Hadid deactivated her Twitter account after it was announced that tech mogul Elon Musk has finally completed his $44 billion deal to buy the social media platform.
The 27-year-old supermodel took to Instagram and told her more than 76 million followers that she left Twitter because “it’s becoming more and more of a cesspool of hate & bigotry, and it’s not a place I want to be a part of.”
The Vogue cover girl also said that she is ‘only sorry to the fans’ that she has enjoyed and loved connecting with for years on Twitter.
Concluding her post, Gigi said she feels the platform is no longer ‘a safe place for anyone, nor a platform that will do more good than harm.’
She also shared a screenshot of a tweet written by Shannon Raj Singh, which told her followers that “the entire Human Rights team has been cut from the company.”
Even though she was fired, Raj Singh said she was “proud of the work we did to implement the UN Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights, to protect those at-risk in global conflicts & crises including Ethiopia, Afghanistan, and Ukraine, and to defend the needs of those particularly at risk of human rights abuse by virtue of their social media presence, such as journalists & human rights defenders.”
Before deleting her account, Gigi had more than 10.5 million followers on Twitter.
When fans tried to visit her profile, it only showed ‘this account doesn’t exist.’
Her decision to leave the platform comes after Bot Sentinel, a data company, found that Twitter may have lost more than a million users since Musk acquired it for $44 billion.
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