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The 27-year-old supermodel announced on Instagram that she deactivated her Twitter account on Friday amid the mass layoffs, including the human rights team.
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“For a long time, but especially with its new leadership,” Hadid wrote of Musk, “it’s becoming more and more of a cesspool of hate & bigotry, and its [sic] not a place I want to be a part [sic] of.”
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She added an apology to her fans on the platform, writing that she loved connecting with them.
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“I can’t stay it’s a safe place for anyone,” she continued, “nor a social platform that will do more good than harm.”
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Alongside her statement she posted Human Rights Counsel Shannon Raj Singh’s tweet about being laid off from the tech giant.
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Twitter fired roughly half of their workforce on Friday with an email to staff explaining the cuts were “necessary to ensure the company’s success moving forward.”
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Toni Braxton previously announced she would be staying away from the social media site as well.
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“I’m shocked and appalled at some of the ‘free speech’ I’ve seen on this platform since its acquisition. Hate speech under the veil of ‘free speech’ is unacceptable; therefore I am choosing to stay off Twitter as it is no longer a safe space for myself, my sons and other POC,” she wrote last month.
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Shonda Rhimes, Sara Bareilles and Téa Leoni also said sayonara to Twitter in October.
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