In case you missed the historic news, Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently purchased Twitter for a staggering amount of money. Like, we're talking $44.1 BILLION dollars, which to us seems like a lot, but to a BILLIONAIRE? It's truly just pocket change.
The decision came with much controversy and many people have announced they're are leaving the platform, including The Good Place actress, Jameela Jamil.
The purchase came after Elon acquired 9% of the social media platform's shares earlier this year. On April 14, the billionaire offered to purchase the rest of the shares at $54.20 each, amounting to a shocking $44.1 billion total.
Now, many people have many different thoughts about this, and one of the most outspoken celebrities, Jameela Jamil, is no exception.
The actress took to Twitter on Monday to announce she was leaving the platform.
"... it's a win win for you all really," Jameela tweeted to her haters.
"I fear this free speech bid is going to help this hell platform reach its final form of totally lawless hate, bigotry and misogyny."
While the future of the website is still up in the air, I wonder how many other celebrities, influencers, and creators will remove themselves from the platform once and for all.
Sharing her final tweet on Instagram, Jameela wrote: "MY DMS ARE WILD TODAY. I said this and then left, after Elon bought Twitter, and some angry white men are seemingly quite upset."
She continued: "I don’t want a freedom of hate speech because it is detrimental to the freedom of speech of the oppressed as they face such horrific and scary real life consequences for objecting to their oppression."
"Nobody else is safe there if they do not think the already HORRIFYING vitriol on that app is enough 'freedom.' It’s about to become The Purge and some sort of crypto bro fever dream I fear. Why bother when I could just be happy and play with Barold and eat cake ya know?"
"It appears obvious some of these people were looking forward to being able to abuse me on Twitter, and have had to come to my DMs to spew their boring [explective]. Sign of what’s to come on there eh? Let the angry boys have their toy."
Jameela then concluded by pointing out once more how cute her dog is, which of course, is a point we can all agree on.
I'm hoping everyone can come to a decision that will bring them peace during these unprecedented times.
