Elon Musk at a press convention close to Brownsville, Texas, on Feb. 10, 2022. (Miguel Roberts / The Brownsville Herald through AP)
Tesla Inc Chief Government Officer Elon Musk is giving "severe thought" to constructing a brand new social media platform, the billionaire mentioned in a tweet on Saturday.
Musk was responding to a Twitter consumer's query on whether or not he would contemplate constructing a social media platform consisting of an open supply algorithm and one that may prioritize free speech, and the place propaganda was minimal.
Musk, a prolific consumer of Twitter himself, has been important of the social media platform and its insurance policies of late. He has mentioned the corporate is undermining democracy by failing to stick to free speech ideas.
His tweet comes a day after he put out a Twitter ballot asking customers in the event that they believed Twitter adheres to the precept of free speech, to which over 70% voted "no."
"The implications of this ballot will probably be vital. Please vote rigorously," he mentioned on Friday.
If Musk decides to go forward with creating a brand new platform, he can be becoming a member of a rising portfolio of know-how corporations which are positioning themselves as champions of free speech and which hope to attract customers who really feel their views are suppressed on platforms akin to Twitter, Meta Platform's Fb and Alphabet-owned Google's YouTube.
Not one of the corporations, together with Donald Trump's Reality Social, Twitter rivals Gettr and Parler and video website Rumble, have come near matching the attain and recognition of the mainstream platforms thus far.
(Reporting by Jahnavi Nidumolu and Bhargav Acharya in Bengaluru; Enhancing by Lincoln Feast.)
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