Twitter's new CEO Parag Agarwal is criticized over an old tweet about racism

 Parag Agarwal, the new Indian-origin CEO of Twitter replacing Jack Dorsey, become trolled on Tuesday on his very own platform for an 11-yr-vintage tweet that carried racist remarks.


In 2010, whilst he was now not even an employee of Twitter, Agrawal quoted a comedian mocking racism and Islamophobia in America.



"If they may be not gonna make a distinction among Muslims and extremists, then why need to I distinguish between white people and racists," Agrawal said in the tweet posted on October 26, 2010.


Questioning this, Republican Ken Buck, who represents Colorado's Fourth Congressional District, requested how users ought to believe Twitter's new CEO to treat anyone similarly.


However, Agrawal turned into short to clarify his remarks to a user. "I was quoting Asif Mandvi from The Daily Show. The article you're studying seems too deep for my modern-day mental state," he posted.


Agrawal additionally posted approximately Facebook and noted that the social media large is definitely a waste of time. "Facebook is sort of a prison. You take a seat round, waste time, have a profile photo, write on partitions and get poked via guys you do not know (thru gizmodo)," he wrote.


Agrawal had earlier tweeted: "Facebook is seriously tousled. The https settings revert again to http whilst you use any app that does not do https."


Meanwhile, Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Monday tweeted: "Wishing you the very quality beforehand @jack, and congrats @paraga and @btaylor - excited for Twitter's destiny!"


"Wishing you the very nice ahead @jack, and congrats @paraga and @btaylor - excited for Twitter's future," Pichai stated in a tweet.


Agrawal will take over from Dorsey as the CEO in 2022. Agrawal joins a select group of CEOs of Indian starting place heading era businesses within the US.

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