Alyssa Milano has revealed that she has returned her Tesla following Elon Musk's Twitter takeover.
Musk, 51, finally acquired Twitter in a $44 billion takeover that began in April this year.
Within weeks of becoming "Chief Twit" on October 27, the billionaire made changes such as eliminating working from home and implementing an "extremely hardcore" working environment, as previously reported.
As a result, numerous celebrities then left the app - including Ryan Reynolds, Whoopi Goldberg, and Toni Braxton.
Now, Milano - who is best known for her role as Phoebe Halliwell in the hit series Charmed - has taken to Twitter to reveal that she's actually gone as far as to give back her Tesla, opting to buy a Volkswagen instead.
"I gave back my Tesla. I bought the VW ev. I love it. I'm not sure how advertisers can buy space on Twitter. Publicly traded company's products being pushed in alignment with hate and white supremacy doesn't seem to be a winning business model," the 49-year-old tweeted.
The tweet initially sparked a little backlash, with certain users pointing out that Volkswagen was "literally founded" Nazis. "Volkswagen was literally founded by the Nazi's and Hitler," one user said.
Musk himself responded to that Tweet with a laughing emoji and a '100' emoji.
Volkswagen was founded in German in 1937 under Adolf Hitler's Nazi government, and the company was backed by Hitler, per Business Insider.
Later on, however, Milano appeared on The View and explained the reasoning behind her tweet, saying that Musk could have used the $44 billion he spent acquiring Twitter for a more noble purpose: "You buy Twitter to destroy it ... Imagine if he donated that money to UNICEF.
"He would change the world. There would be no hunger!"
Many people on the platform supported Milano's decision, with one person tweeting: "Excellent move, Shero! I've only owned VW's for the last 23 years, currently rocking a Jetta and we're not required to bail out Elon's bad investment in any way or tolerate hate speech."
"I did exactly this when Musk brought workers back during the pandemic and started playing footsie with Ivanka. Finally got the [Volkswagen] ID4. Love it. I'm driving a battery powered car made by a car company, not a car built by a carbon credit factory that feels like a dumb red hat," someone else added.
Other users accused Milano of "virtue signaling" - which is the practice of publicly expressing a moral opinion with the intent of communicating good character. In other words, it's an expression that describes how certain people choose to show off the important causes they care about just so everyone else views them as good people.
In response to Musk's reply to the Hitler tweet, someone commented: "Slam dunk. Thank goodness for Hollywood for giving us so many virtue signalling celebrities. They never fail to deliver."
"She gave up her Tesla but just couldn’t give up Twitter," another person wrote.
It seems that the division over Musk's Twitter takeover shows no signs of slowing down yet!
