What Does Elon Musk Actually Want To Do With Twitter? [View all]
Twitter is now owned by the world's richest man. There's a lot of speculation about what direction he will take the social media platform, but what has he actually said?
FREE SPEECH
"Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated," Musk said in a statement on Twitter, right after Twitter announced they had accepted Musk's offer.
He has often been critical of Twitter in the past for "failing to adhere to free speech principles". Navigating the line between a platform that protects its users by banning hate speech (and threats, etc) and one that allows more freedom of speech is tougher than Musk might imagine. Twitter and Facebook have had to navigate a US President spreading misinformation about the 2020 election, and then misinformation around COVID, for example. They chose to label tweets as misleading or false, and remove users (including Trump) who continued to break the rules of the platform.
Other social media networks that have dedicated themselves wholeheartedly to free speech have found shortly afterward that that's not as simple as it sounds. Parler, for instance, aimed to be a place where speech was completely free. It wasn't long before they had to ban people for posting pictures of their own fecal matter, and prevent people from having the username "CumDumpster".
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