Tesla Inc Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk is giving “serious thought” to building a new social media platform, the billionaire said in a tweet on Saturday.
Elon Musk stated that failing to adhere to free speech principles fundamentally undermines democracy because Twitter serves as the de facto public town square.
Am giving serious thought to this
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 27, 2022
Elon Musk, a prolific user of Twitter himself, has been critical of the social media platform and its policies of late. He has said the company is undermining democracy by failing to adhere to free speech principles.
His tweet comes a day after he put out a Twitter poll asking users if they believed Twitter adheres to the principle of free speech, to which over 70 percent voted “no”.
“The consequences of this poll will be important. Please vote carefully,” he added.
The consequences of this poll will be important. Please vote carefully.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 25, 2022
In line with the same, last week, Tesla and SpaceX also tweeted that “free speech is essential to a functioning democracy” and questioned users if Twitter “rigorously adheres to this principle”.
Musk wants to launch a social media platform where users can write anything they want. This is in line with former US President Donald Trump’s ideology behind launching his social platform — ‘Social Truth’, which was launched for iOS users last month.
remain a valid subject for government investigation even if a court throws out his 2018 agreement with the SEC.
Under the SEC settlement agreement, the regulator will distribute funds from the company and Musk to investors who lost money buying Tesla shares after Musk claimed on Twitter he was thinking about taking the company public.
Is a new platform needed?
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 26, 2022
If Mr. Musk decides to go ahead with creating a new platform, he would be joining a growing portfolio of technology companies that are positioning themselves as champions of free speech and which hope to draw users who feel their views are suppressed on platforms such as Twitter, Meta Platform’s Facebook and Alphabet-owned Google’s YouTube.
One of the many users said, “I wish Elon Musk would just buy Twitter already. Anyone else?”. Another one said, “Hey @elonmusk will you please buy @twitter, free @TheBabylonBee & return the true marketplace of ideas to this site? We need you to make it happen”.
Hey @elonmusk will you please buy @twitter, free @TheBabylonBee & return the true marketplace of ideas to this site? We need you to make it happen.
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) March 25, 2022
Currently, as Musk also mentioned in his reply to Pranay Pathole, launching a social media platform is just a “serious thought” and maybe he will never launch his own social app, or maybe he will. We do not know anything about that right now.
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No question it would be wonderful, maybe a market place for businesses to sell as well.
Wish he would but pattern it after FB, not Twitter. I didn’t understand Twitter, there’s no real interaction….nothing social about it. Musk hopefully will get it right, just stop putting people in jail like FB….at least let us appeal to a real human being.
FB jail is silly. Allow everyone to speak freely. Support our Constitution. Mike is right about Elon. 🇺🇸
The only person in this global confusion that we live in that offers a ray of sunshine is Elon Musk. Please never stop turning mankind”s dream into reality.