Twitter owner Elon Musk said the platform “needs to be politically neutral” to regain “public trust,” and in practice, that means “disrupting far right and far left.”
Twitter’s new owner, Elon Musk, said the platform “must be politically neutral” to regain “public trust. And in practice, that meant “disrupting the right and left. It should be noted that both sides of the political spectrum have long accused the platform of practicing arbitrary rules. When it comes to content moderation. However, in the US, Republicans specifically insist that platforms like Twitter and Facebook are more left-friendly and block right-friendly content.
Musk hinted that he wanted the platform to play somewhere in the middle. The owner of SpaceX wrote that since taking over the platform, there have been “strong and swift attacks, mostly from the left. Which is not surprising.” But he added: “I have to realize that rights might be a little unhappy too.”
“My goal is to maximize the area under the general human happiness curve. Which is about 80% of people in the environment,” he wrote. Musk also noted that “Twitter DMs should have end-to-end encryption like Signal so no one can spy on or hack your messages. DMs are direct messages on Twitter.
Previous reports indicated that DMs were available on Twitter even after users deleted them.
He also posted screenshots showing how Trump’s social network. Truth Social, works better than Twitter or TikTok on the App Store. In response to his screenshot, Musk posted that “Truth Social (terrible name) exists because Twitter censors free speech.”
The Tesla owner continues to say that Twitter should support freedom of expression. And that is what he will focus on now that he has the social network. However, he clarified that he meant it within limits permitted by law when he said free speech. He also tweeted that Truth Social should be called a “trumpet.”