Michael Hiltzik: Elon Musk's stake in Twitter is not good news for Twitter — or its users
Over the years, Elon Musk has used Twitter to flout securities laws, smear his critics and promote useless treatments for COVID-19.
So of course Twitter judged that Musk "would bring great value to our Board."
That's how Twitter Chief Executive Parag Agrawal justified the company's appointing Musk to its board of directors Tuesday.
Agrawal further described Musk as "both a passionate believer and intense critic of the service, which is exactly what we need on Twitter, and in the boardroom, to make us stronger in the long-term."
Speaking as a devoted and long-term user of Twitter, I can only respond, "that depends." One can be an intense critic of a company yet have only ideas that will make it worse, and weaker.
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