{"id":13470,"date":"2022-11-06T23:26:45","date_gmt":"2022-11-06T23:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/06\/gigi-hadid-quits-twitter-after-elon-musk-takeover-says-its-becoming-more-and-more-of-a-cesspool-of-hate-bigotry\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T23:26:45","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T23:26:45","slug":"gigi-hadid-quits-twitter-after-elon-musk-takeover-says-its-becoming-more-and-more-of-a-cesspool-of-hate-bigotry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/06\/gigi-hadid-quits-twitter-after-elon-musk-takeover-says-its-becoming-more-and-more-of-a-cesspool-of-hate-bigotry\/","title":{"rendered":"Gigi Hadid Quits Twitter After Elon Musk Takeover &#8211; Says It\u2019s \u2018Becoming More And More Of A Cesspool Of Hate &#038; Bigotry\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p><strong>Gigi Hadid<\/strong> is looking it quits with <strong>Twitter <\/strong>for now.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve remained on the social media platform, then you&#8217;ve in all probability seen that there have been many celebrities who&#8217;ve introduced their <a href=\"https:\/\/perezhilton.com\/celebrities-vowing-quit-twitter-after-elon-musk-takeover\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">determination to go away the app<\/a> ever since <strong>Elon Musk<\/strong> took possession of it. These stars embrace <strong>Shonda Rhimes<\/strong>, <strong>Sara Bareilles<\/strong>, and <strong>Toni Braxton<\/strong>. And now, everybody can add Gigi to the checklist! On Saturday, the 27-year-old mannequin took to <strong>Instagram Stories<\/strong> to tell her followers that she formally \u201cdeactivated\u201d her account. She stated:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cFor a long time, but especially with its new leadership, it\u2019s becoming more and more of a cesspool of hate &amp; bigotry, and its not a place I want to be a part of.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/perezhilton.com\/kanye-west-calls-out-gigi-hadid-privileged-karen-zombie-white-lives-matter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Related: Kanye Called Gigi A \u2018Privileged Karen\u2019 After Her Critique Of His White Lives Matter Stunt<\/a><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gigi then apologized to her followers on the platform, including:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cOnly sorry to the fans, who I\u2019ve loved connecting with for a decade via Twitter. But I can\u2019t say it\u2019s a safe place for anyone nor a social platform that will do more good than harm.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Alongside her assertion, she additionally shared a screenshot of a tweet from a former worker at <strong>Shannon Raj Singh<\/strong>, which advised followers that \u201cthe entire Human Rights team has been cut from the company.\u201d Twitter laid off roughly half of its staff on Friday. But past layoffs, the app has additionally seen a rise in hate speech. According to <em>The Washington Post<\/em>, the <strong>Network Contagion Research Institute<\/strong> discovered that the usage of the N-word on the social media platform elevated by practically 500% within the first 12 hours of Elon\u2019s takeover alone. The newspaper additionally famous that the usage of different racist rhetoric, in addition to sexist and anti-LGBTQ messages, elevated. Disgusting\u2026<\/p>\n<p>We can not blame her for wanting to go away the app already. You can learn Gigi\u2019s whole message (under):<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_949175\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-949175\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-949175 size-full lazyload\" width=\"1200\" src=\"https:\/\/perezhilton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Gigi-Hadid-Quitting-Twitter.jpg\" alt=\"Gigi Hadid Quits Twitter After Elon Musk Takeover, Says It\u2019s \u2018Becoming More And More Of A Cesspool Of Hate &amp; Bigotry\u2019 \" height=\"2080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/perezhilton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Gigi-Hadid-Quitting-Twitter.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/perezhilton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Gigi-Hadid-Quitting-Twitter-173x300.jpg 173w, https:\/\/perezhilton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Gigi-Hadid-Quitting-Twitter-591x1024.jpg 591w, https:\/\/perezhilton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Gigi-Hadid-Quitting-Twitter-768x1331.jpg 768w, https:\/\/perezhilton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Gigi-Hadid-Quitting-Twitter-886x1536.jpg 886w, https:\/\/perezhilton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Gigi-Hadid-Quitting-Twitter-1182x2048.jpg 1182w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"\/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-949175\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(c) Gigi Hadid\/Instagram<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now, if followers attempt to go to her profile on Twitter, it says \u201cthis account doesn\u2019t exist.\u201d But don&#8217;t worry everybody, you&#8217;ll be able to nonetheless get content material from Gigi on Instagram. Ch-ch-check it out (under):<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-949174 size-full lazyload\" width=\"1200\" src=\"https:\/\/perezhilton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Gigi-Hadid-Quits-Twitter.jpg\" alt=\"Gigi Hadid Quits Twitter After Elon Musk Takeover, Says It\u2019s \u2018Becoming More And More Of A Cesspool Of Hate &amp; Bigotry\u2019 \" height=\"898\" srcset=\"https:\/\/perezhilton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Gigi-Hadid-Quits-Twitter.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/perezhilton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Gigi-Hadid-Quits-Twitter-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/perezhilton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Gigi-Hadid-Quits-Twitter-1024x766.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/perezhilton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Gigi-Hadid-Quits-Twitter-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/perezhilton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Gigi-Hadid-Quits-Twitter-800x600.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll should see who else decides to say goodbye to Twitter! Are you stunned Gigi determined to stop the app? Do you intend to observe go well with and go away Twitter now that Elon has taken over it, Perezcious readers? Drop your ideas on the matter within the feedback under.<\/p>\n<p><em>[Image via <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/gigihadid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gigi Hadid\/Instagram,<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/photo.wenn.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"> WENN<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Gigi Hadid is looking it quits with Twitter for now. If you&#8217;ve remained on the social media platform, then you&#8217;ve in all probability seen that there have been many celebrities who&#8217;ve introduced their determination to go away the app ever since Elon Musk took possession of it. These stars embrace Shonda Rhimes, Sara Bareilles, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13470","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}