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According to the Washington Post, Twitter plans to host an internal AMA with board member Elon Musk.
Some employees were concerned about Musk’s role, according to company news viewed by The Post.
An employee asked if board members are subject to the same tweeting standards as employees.
A Twitter worker said on the company’s Slack channel that employees would be subject to HR scrutiny if they tweeted like Tesla founder Elon Musk, who now owns 9% of the social media company, according to The Washington Post.
“Quick question: if an employee tweeted some of the things that Elon tweets, they would likely be subject” to an HR investigation, according to a Slack message seen by The Post. “Are board members held to the same standard?”
The investigation preceded an internal Twitter AMA, or “Ask Me Anything,” question-and-answer session with Musk that Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal told employees about on Thursday, according to The Post.
“We can confirm that Elon will soon be joining our CEO, Parag, for an AMA with Twitter employees,” a Twitter spokesperson told Business Insider. “We have nothing more to share.”
According to news from The Post, some employees were concerned about Musk’s new role on the company’s board, with executives saying that Agrawal is still “the tiebreaker” in terms of company decisions.
Last month, Musk criticized Twitter for not “adhering to the principles of free speech” and for undermining democracy.
In a tweet on Tuesday agrawal welcomed Musk to the board. In response, Musk said He is “looking forward to working with Parag & Twitter Board to make significant improvements to Twitter in the coming months!”
Musk did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment.
An avid Twitter user, Musk – who is also Tesla’s CEO – is a controversial figure whose outspoken comments have repeatedly sparked controversy on the social media platform.
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In a tweet last month For example, Musk challenged Russian President Vladimir Putin to a one-on-one over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. And last year he said more Twitter He would sell Tesla stock and donate the proceeds if the United Nations World Food Program could prove that $6 billion from the world’s billionaires would solve a hunger crisis.
and in 2018, Musk famously sparked a firestorm — and an investigation — when he tweeted that he was considering privatizing Tesla for $420 a share and that he had “secured the funding.” The US Securities and Exchange Commission sued him over the tweet, alleging that he had made “false and misleading statements”. Musk and Tesla settled the lawsuit with the SEC for $40 million.
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