Officials in San Francisco aren’t all that torn up over X owner Elon Musk’s plans to take the social media company out of town.
“I share the perspective that most San Franciscans have, which is good riddance,” City Attorney David Chiu told The New York Times.
Musk announced in July that he would move the X headquarters from San Francisco to Austin after California passed a law against “forced outings of LGBTQ+ students in schools.”
Musk has promoted anti-trans content on his platform in the past, which his transgender daughter, Vivian Jenna Wilson, criticized.
Last month, The billionaire also said he was unhappy with San Francisco’s “gross receipt tax.”
“Even if the severe crime problem in SF were to be solved tomorrow, X could not remain in SF and launch payments, as it would immediately fail,” Musk wrote on …