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[00:00.04]On Sunday, Elon Musk posted a poll on Twitter
[00:05.44]asking users if he should step down
[00:09.68]as chief of the social media company.
[00:13.00]The billionaire businessman bought Twitter
[00:17.28]in October for $44 billion.
[00:22.08]Musk wrote: "Should I step down as head of Twitter?
[00:27.64]I will abide by the results of this poll."
[00:32.72]To abide means to accept.
[00:35.40]The poll closed on Monday and the results were in.
[00:39.84]Out of more than 17 million voters, 57.5 percent said "yes."
[00:46.80]Musk has not yet commented on the results.
[00:52.88]Musk's actions and decisions over the past two months
[00:58.44]have made many Twitter users quit
[01:01.88]or think about quitting the social media service.
[01:06.76]Last week, Musk banned a number of reporters from Twitter.
[01:13.48]The journalists had a history of reporting on Musk's actions
[01:18.52]as the head of Twitter.
[01:20.24]They included writers for the New York Times,
[01:23.96]Washington Post and Voice of America.
[01:26.84]Musk later brought back most of those accounts
[01:31.12]following an online poll.
[01:34.96]Musk also removed Twitter accounts
[01:38.56]that had been showing the location of his private jet.
[01:43.08]He has also said he would not permit people or businesse
[01:48.12]s to make posts on the service
[01:50.76]directing users to other social media sites,
[01:54.84]such as Instagram, Facebook and Mastodon.
[01:59.24]Musk received sharp criticism from that decision,
[02:04.28]even from people who had previously supported his leadership.
[02:09.28]One of those former supporters
[02:12.28]is well-known businessman Paul Graham.
[02:16.04]Graham called the restriction
[02:18.60]on promoting other sites "the last straw."
[02:23.88]He added that his followers could find him on Mastodon.
[02:30.84]Graham's Twitter account was suspended, then brought back.
[02:38.08]Musk has described himself as a strong supporter of free speech.
[02:43.68]When he took over Twitter, he said he sought
[02:47.92]to make it available to people with widely different opinions.
[02:53.52]But some critics say
[02:55.80]his recent actions as CEO go against those promises.
[03:01.80]Sally Buzbee is The Washington Post's executive editor.
[03:07.44]One of the newspaper's reporters who covers Musk
[03:10.68]was temporarily banned from Twitter.
[03:15.52]Buzbee said, "the suspension occurred with no warning,
[03:18.72]process or explanation – this time
[03:21.76]as our reporter merely sought comment from Musk for a story."
[03:28.08]In public comments with Twitter users on Sunday,
[03:32.24]Musk said it would be hard to find a new CEO for Twitter.
[03:39.76]Any future CEO, he said, "must like pain a lot ...
[03:46.32]to run a company that has been in the fast lane to bankruptcy."
[03:52.96]Musk said anyone with the skills and ability to keep Twitter alive
[03:58.88]would probably not want the job.
[04:02.76]"There is no successor," Musk added.
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