“Watching my friends of color having to work harder, struggle harder, much less followers, much less fans - that’s just in my industry - it’s things that I see,” he continues. I know life is easy for me in comparison. This isn’t to say that I understand what it’s like to be a person of color. I’m fully aware of what it is and what it means.
“I don’t know if I am the right person ” Wolf says. “What he said could have actually triggered someone’s death,” Wolf tells The Advocate through tears (see video below). Within an hour of Wolf posting the video, JustForFans took down Santoro’s account. Wolf - a prominent fixture in the adult industry and one of the first models to transition their brand to sites like Only Fans, a regulated website where models set their own rates and create their own content for subscribers - responded swiftly to Santoro’s post in a heated and emotional call to action for viewers and studios to pull Santoro’s content altogether. Shoot first,” Santoro wrote in a since-deleted Facebook post. America! Lol you let your blacks loot as a way of protest. On Monday, dumped the account of gay porn star Billy Santoro after he wrote a post encouraging police to shoot black looters: “Lol. Wish he would stay on the board, but I understand that he needs to move on,” Musk tweeted.This week, as demonstrators protested against white supremacy and police brutality following the death of George Floyd, a slew of racist remarks and attacks appeared on social media - including posts from LGBTQ+ people.
Musk lamented Dorsey’s exit in a series of tweets Thursday, noting that he would welcome him to stay at the company. Dorsey indicated he would leave the board this year when he stepped down as CEO last November. The Twitter founder formally exited from the company’s board of directors when his term expired at the shareholder meeting. Bloomberg TechnologyĪ short time later, Musk backed out of the agreement and announced that he was mounting a $44 billion hostile takeover.ĭorsey has endorsed Musk’s acquisition, saying that he agrees with the Tesla boss’s vision of enabling greater freedom of expression on the site. Jason Goldman, a former Twitter board member and co-founder, said Jack Dorsey urged Musk to buy the firm and take it private. Goldman made the comments a day before Twitter, whose board accepted the Tesla CEO’s buyout offer at $54.20 a share, held its annual shareholder meeting on Wednesday. “The most important answer can assert is that there’s no such thing as the deal being on hold,” Goldman said. Analysts believe that Musk is simply looking for a way to renegotiate the purchase price, particularly after Twitter stock plummeted in recent weeks. Twitter has stated its intention to enforce the agreement despite Musk’s misgivings. Last month, Twitter’s board accepted Elon Musk’s buyout offer of $54.20 a share. Musk tweeted that the deal was “on hold” due to purported concerns about the prevalence of “spam” and “bot” accounts. Goldman told Bloomberg that Twitter shareholders want Musk to adhere to the terms of the $54.20-a-share tender offer. “That to me is just a clear backstabbing of the board by the founder when they had a deal in hand to come to a standstill,” Goldman said. Goldman said Dorsey’s comments suggest that he was the one who urged Musk to take over the company entirely and take it private. Musk had asked Twitter’s board to convene a meeting, during which Dorsey “shared his personal view that Twitter would be able to better focus on execution as a private company,” according to an SEC filing.įormer Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was accused of “backstabbing” the company’s board of directors. Goldman, who was Twitter’s vice president of product, told Bloomberg that the company’s chairman, Bret Taylor, and CEO Parag Agrawal struck a deal with Musk to bring him on as a director in exchange for his agreeing not to buy up more shares.Īn SEC filing submitted days later revealed that Musk owned a 9.2% stake in Twitter - which at the time was equivalent to 73.4 million shares, the most of any shareholder. Jason Goldman, a former member of the board who was part of Twitter’s founding team more than a decade ago, told Bloomberg News that he believes Dorsey encouraged Musk to buy the company outright after Musk had initially been in talks to merely join the board. Why Elon Musk welcomes a US recession: ‘Bankruptcies need to happen’įormer Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey served the company on a platter to Elon Musk by “backstabbing” the company’s board of directors, one of the social media giant’s co-founders alleged. SEC probing Elon Musk’s Twitter stake purchaseĮlon Musk trolls AOC on Twitter over her Tesla Musk ally Egon Durban keeps Twitter board seat despite shareholder vote