After Elon Musk concluded his $44 billion agreement to buy Twitter last week, Gigi Hadid became the latest star to depart the platform.
The 27-year-old supermodel notified her 76.2 Instagram followers on Saturday that she had ‘deactivated’ her Twitter account owing to ‘its new leadership.’
‘It’s becoming more and more of a cesspool of hate & bigotry, and its not a place I want to be a part of,’ she wrote on her Instagram Story.
She is ‘just sorry to the fans’ she has ‘loved connected with for a decade’ on the site, according to the five-foot-ten beauty.
Finally, she stated that she no longer believes Twitter is “a safe place for anyone, nor a platform that will do more good than damage.”
She also uploaded an image of Shannon Raj Singh’s viral tweet, in which she notified her followers that ‘the whole Human Rights staff has been removed from the organization.’
Despite her dismissal, she stated that she was ‘enormously proud of the work we did to implement the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, to protect those at-risk in global conflicts and crises such as Ethiopia, Afghanistan, and Ukraine, and to defend the needs of those particularly at risk of human rights abuse due to their social media presence, such as journalists and human rights defenders.’
Hadid’s move comes as analytics firm Bot Sentinel discovered that Twitter may have lost over a million members since Musk purchased the tech business for $44 billion, implying that the company suspended some users and others deactivated in protest.
The Vogue cover girl had over 10,536,819 followers on the microblogging site before leaving.
When admirers visit her prior profile, they see ‘this account does not exist.’
Shonda Rhimes, Mia Farrow, Téa Leoni from Madam Secretary, Jameela Jamil from She Hulk, and authors and activists Shaun King and Amy Siskind have all vowed to boycott the site.
Musk has already received criticism for his new verified checkmark system, which will cost $8 per month.