Billionaire Elon Musk will buy Twitter, and has pledged to make the platform more friendly to 'free speech.'
LAS VEGAS — From Tesla to Space X, and to the Boring Company digging tunnels under Las Vegas, Elon Musk has his hands in many projects over the last few decades, but arguably his biggest move is purchasing Twitter for roughly $44 billion.In tweets from his account, Musk promised to make the platform more friendly for"free speech," drawing mixed reactions.— Elon Musk April 25, 2022 "Elon Musk just worries me in general," said Khrystal Jackson.
"You're not going to take down posts, and people could just lie about anything they want to about the election," she said."Like persuade people on a wide scale and nobody is going to monitor? That's kind of scary." "You've got snowflakes, like, the liberals and stuff, who they can say what they want to say," Merry said."But when Republicans or whoever is for Trump and Musk, they want to say what they want to say, they don't like that."
— Elon Musk April 25, 2022 Blankenship said social media sites have historically fallen short in an obligation to remove harmful content from platforms, and relaxing rules could turn Twitter into a platform where it's near impossible to find credible information that is potentially made worse by bot accounts and bad actors.
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