Who Is Vijaya Gadde - The Former Head of Twitter's Legal, Policy, Trust And Safety

Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and the richest man in the world, concluded his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter on October 28, 2022. He is now the owner of the social networking platform. As the news spread over the world, he posted on Twitter, "The bird is freed."

the bird is freed

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 28, 2022

It has come with firing of four top Twitter executives - Chief Executive Parag Agrawal, Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal, Sean Edgett, who has been General Counsel and Vijay Gadde as legal head. Last week, Elon Musk slammed Twitter's top lawyer Vijaya Gadde in a series of harsh tweets, leading a former business official to claim that the billionaire bullied Gadde and launched a harassment campaign against her.

Who Is Vijaya Gadde?

Vijaya Gadde was born in Hyderabad and immigrated to the US when she was three years old. She graduated from Cornell University with a bachelor of science in industrial and labour relations. To study law, she enrolled at New York University. She also had a senior director post at Juniper Networks' legal division. She joined Twitter in 2011.

As Twitter's chief legal officer, she made about $17 million in 2021 and almost $7.3 million in 2020, according to a Bloomberg Law report. Her main responsibilities at the company included responding to harassing and false news tweets.

This is not the first time she is in limelight as earlier also she played a vital role in terminating ex-President Donald Trump’s account on Twitter. In 2018, a picture of Gadde holding a sign that read "Smash Brahmanical Patriarchy" while posing with Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey went viral in India. The incident generated a lot of debate. Some critics said that the feeling was anti-Brahmin, while others claimed that it was more anti-caste. She was nonetheless compelled to apologise in a series of tweets.

Some photographs foretell a story.
That's @Vijaya Gadde between Barkha Dutt and Jack Dorsey when Twitter's woke gang came visiting India with a "Smash Brahminical Patriarchy" placard and our @lefties and @libbies whooped in delight.
Vile Vijaya has got the sack. pic.twitter.com/7Necr0ptO0

— Kanchan Gupta 🇮🇳 (@KanchanGupta) October 28, 2022

In the photo, she could also be spotted standing next to Barkha Dutt and other women journalists who are famous around the world.

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Musk’s dissatisfaction with Twitter’s policies and was perhaps the first hint toward Gadde would likely lose her job. Gadde was subjected to a storm of trolls demanding for her to be fired and making hateful comments about her when the meme went viral, even though many people also defended Musk.

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The first indication that Gadde would probably lose her job came from Musk's dissatisfaction with Twitter's policies. (All You Need To Know About Elon Musk’s Twitter Take-Over)

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