According to Bill Gates, Elon Musk is managing Twitter in a "seat-of-the-pants" manner.

According to Bill Gates, Musk has adopted a seat-of-the-pants approach to decision making. In an interview with the Financial Times, the Microsoft co-founder said that Musk's management style could increase polarisation on the platform. Gates said, "I think, certainly, the Twitter situation is stirring things up." You're seeing seat-of-the-pants type activity instead of an objective set of measures done by a broad group of people.

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Seat-of-the-pants refers to decision-making that relies on personal experience and judgment rather than technology. Gates said that there needs to be a focus on the things that cause riots or lead to huge misconception about the safety of vaccines or masks.

Even a fair-minded person with the world's best technology and infinite staffing budget would find it difficult to battle misinformation. Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates has sparred with Musk in the past over their differing views on issues like space travel and climate change, but he is not the only one who dislikes Musk. 

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Since acquiring the company, Musk has made a number of decisions that have elicited criticism. He told the remaining employees that they would have to adapt to a new hardcore work culture if they wanted to stay at the company. Some advertisers left the platform because of Musk's policies on content moderation. Reports emerged suggesting that Musk had enlisted executives from his other companies to work at the micro-blogging site. 

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