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Grimes admits Twitter has ‘issues with public mental health’ as Elon Musk buys platform

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Grimes is a frequent Twitter user but has said the social media site has ‘issues with public mental health’, just as her ex-boyfriend Elon Musk made his bid to buy the platform.  It was announced last month that Tesla founder Musk, 50, had reached an agreement with Twitter to buy the platform for $44billion (£3.

4bn), and is now in the last stages of finalising the deal. However, his on/off girlfriend Grimes, who shares two children with the businessman, has a major gripe with the platform and its impact on mental health, but was careful with her words in light of the lucrative sale.

In a recent interview, the musician – real name Claire Boucher – said: ‘I do think there are a lot of issues with Twitter in terms of the public mental health but due to my proximity to the current dramas, I honestly feel that I should not have opinions about this because, if Elon ends up getting Twitter, that is being the arbiter of truth or public discussion.  ‘That is a responsibility – I am not qualified to be responsible for that, and I do not want to say something that might, like, dismantle democracy,’ she added to MIT artificial intelligence researcher Lex Fridman.

Grimes, 34, added later in the talk, which was released over the weekend: ‘One of the things that’s happening is that, like, it’s alienating people from wanting to care about technology.

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