Breaking: Elon Musk says he has 'hired a new CEO for X/Twitter'

Billionaire business tycoon Elon Musk announced on Thursday that he has hired someone to serve as Twitter's CEO.

Though he did not divulge the woman's identity, he noted that she would begin the role in around six weeks.

"Excited to announce that I've hired a new CEO for X/Twitter. She will be starting in ~6 weeks! My role will transition to being exec chair & CTO, overseeing product, software & sysops," Musk tweeted.

Musk, who bought the social media company last year, ran a Twitter poll in December in which he asked whether he should step down as the leader of the company. He pledged that he would act in accordance with the results of the poll.

"Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll," Musk tweeted. The results showed 57.5% of respondents voting for Musk to step down and 42.5% voting that he should not step down. "I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job! After that, I will just run the software & servers teams," wrote in a later tweet in December.

Musk has repeatedly expressed support for the principle of free speech. "I am against censorship that goes far beyond the law," Musk tweeted in April 2022. "If people want less free speech, they will ask government to pass laws to that effect. Therefore, going beyond the law is contrary to the will of the people."

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