Elton John says he's quitting Twitter: 'it saddens me to see how misinformation is now being used to divide our world'
on Friday that he was leaving the platform over misinformation and an unspecified"policy change."
"All my life I've tried to use music to bring people together," John said."Yet it saddens me to see how misinformation is now being used to divide our world." He added,"I've decided to no longer use Twitter, given their recent change in policy which will allow misinformation to flourish unchecked."Insider reached out to representatives for John for clarification on what policy change he was referring to, but did not immediately hear back.
Billionaire Elon Musk has implemented and promised sweeping changes to Twitter since he bought the company in late October for $44 billion. Some of those changes have been met with backlash from critics who say they would lead to a rise in misinformation.Twitter has reinstated previously banned accounts, such asMusk is overhauling the Twitter Blue subscription, including charging a monthly fee for the blue checkmark meant to identify verified accounts of public figures and institutions .over Musk's changes, including musician Sara Bareilles and TV producer Shonda Rhimes, neither of whom have tweeted in over a month.
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