To independent voters:
Shared power holds back the worst excesses of both parties, so I recommend voting for a Republican Congress, as the presidency is Democratic.
– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 7, 2022
The first ten days since he was considered a visionary Purchased mask “Twitter” microblogging platform have been chaotic.
Experts warn that Musk’s changes could facilitate the spread of disinformation, even in the mid-term elections in the United States.
On Saturday it was announced that users a rate verification process will be available – anyone can get a blue tick for $ 8 a month – previously only available to influential people and organizations who were asked to prove their identity. Now everyone can buy it.
“Elon Musk argued controversially that Twitter is too leftist. He even came out politically in favor of Republicans. So there’s a real question mark as to whether Twitter can actually maintain its relative independence and neutrality,” says TechCrunch “Editor-in-Chief Mike Butcher.
Musk has called himself a “free speech absolutist”, promising that former US President Donald Trump would be readmitted to the platform.
Others also welcomed these promised changes. Officials and journalists with ties to China and Russia, and even some jihadists, have already urged Musk to lift restrictions on the use of Twitter.
Among these are the Russian propaganda channels “Russia Today”, “Sputnik” and others, which want to publish more “free” news, including the war in Ukraine.
The owner of “Twitter” Elon Musk
Photo: REUTERS, NUT RUVIC
So far, however, Musk hasn’t made it clear that Twitter could change its policy regarding hate content on the platform. But in the general chaos of acquisitions, speculation about change is skyrocketing.
Those who have allowed themselves to joke about Maska, pretending to be him, have already seen another face of “absolutist freedom of speech”. Their Twitter profiles were closed without warning.
Therefore, some users are already looking for alternative platforms and this time it was one of the biggest winners social network “Mastodon”whose number of users increased by a third in the past week.
CONTEXT:
The richest man in the world, US billionaire Elon Musk at the end of October acquisition of the “Twitter” social network completed. And took control about this company. He has already fired several top Twitter employees.
Musk paid $ 44 billion for the purchase of the social network.
The businessman says he bought Twitter to foster a healthy debate on a wide range of ideas and to counter the trend of social media to split into partisan “echo chambers”.
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