https://www.siliconvalley.com/2022/05/06/opinion-how-musk-could-protect-twitter-and-promote-free-speech/

In an SEC filing this Monday, following the acceptance of Elon Musk’s offer to purchase the company, among potential risks, Twitter included “the possibility that our current employees could be distracted, and their productivity decline as a result, due to uncertainty regarding the merger.” Left unsaid was that current employees might also be distracted (and potential employees put off) by Musk’s own behavior on Twitter since the deal was announced.

Last week, Musk retweeted a post that was critical of one of Twitter’s key executives. Many of his followers responded by attacking the executive with racist and sexist tweets. This was not an unexpected development: last year, for example, after Musk tweeted criticism about the appointment of a particular professor as an advisor to the National Highway Traffic Safety Association, his followers targeted her with personal and sexist attacks, too — after which she deactivated her Twitter account.