Elton John Quits Twitter Because Its Policy Change That ‘Allows Misinformation To Flourish'

Sir Elton John is an English singer, pianist, and composer.

Commonly nicknamed the "Rocket Man" after his 1972 hit song of the same name, John is a legend in the music industry, and has led a commercially successful career as a solo artist since the 1970s, having released 31 albums since 1969.

John's music and showmanship have had a significant impact on popular music of his and also younger generations.

And on the internet, John is also known as an avid Twitter user.

That, until Elon Musk acquired it.

With the billionaire taking the helm, John simply thinks that Musk doesn't have the capacity to control the microblogging giant going forward.

As a result of his disappointment, the 1947-born musician said that is not going to use Twitter anymore.

To make it clear, John said that his reason is because of a change in Twitter's policy, which he says will allow "misinformation to flourish unchecked."

What concerns John is how Musk is granting "general amnesty” for suspended accounts.

For starters, Musk allowed former U.S. President Donald Trump to return to Twitter, and also allowed Kanye West to return to Twitter after his anti-Semitic rants (before banning him again after he said he loves Hitler).

After that, Musk also granted reentry for Steve Bannon, Donald Trump’s former adviser, far-right UK commentator Katie Hopkins, and David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan “grand wizard”.

Experts have said that Musk's decision would lead to “superspreaders of hate” returning to the platform.

The musician, who has long been outspoken in his opposition to hate speech and who for 20 years has sought to end the AIDS epidemic through his Elton John AIDS Foundation, added a personal note.

“All my life I’ve tried to use music to bring people together. Yet it saddens me to see how misinformation is now being used to divide our world,” he wrote, adding that "I’ve decided to no longer use Twitter, given their recent change in policy which will allow misinformation to flourish unchecked."

John tweeted this amid his farewell tour.

Twitter owner Elon Musk was among those who replied to the musician.

“I love your music. Hope you come back," Twitter's controversial serial entrepreneur, who began referring to himself as the company's Chief Twit after buying it.

“Is there any misinformation in particular that you’re concerned about?”

Besides John, some other notable individual and organizations have quit posting on the service or left altogether since Musk's takeover.

They include Whoopi Goldberg, Jim Carrey, Shonda Rhimes, David Simon, Jamela Jamil, Trent Reznor, Gigi Hadid, Toni Braxton, Téa Leoni, Jack White, Liz Phair, Stephen Fry, Alex Winter, Ken Olin and Playbill magazine, and more.

Musk, credited for leading a number of world-class companies, is also the richest man on Earth. But "Twitter ain't rockets," once said novelist Stephen King, referring to how Twitter is unlike SpaceX, the company Musk also owns.

Even one of Twitter's co-founders doesn't consider Musk as a serious person, and that "he does things for sport."