American entrepreneur Elon Musk explained on his page that the reason for moving the headquarters of his company X from California to Texas is the authorities’ efforts to restrict freedom of speech.
The headquarters of X left San Francisco on Friday, September 13, and relocated to Texas due to disagreement with the local authorities’ policy. Musk announced in July his intention to close the main office in San Francisco and move the headquarters to Austin, Texas.
The reason for his decision, he stated, was the adoption by California’s governor of a law related to educational institutions’ powers in matters of children’s gender self-identification, which, he claimed, would prompt many families to leave the state.
“It’s hard to be a platform for freedom of speech in a state that wants to ban it,” Musk wrote on his X social media page.
Twitter, renamed X by Musk after its acquisition in 2022, was founded in San Francisco in 2006. In 2012, the company moved to a massive Art Deco-style building in the city center, where it rented between 43,000 and 65,000 square meters of space at different times. In July, local media reported that the company was looking for a sublessee for part of its premises.
