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Elon Musk giving 'serious thought' to build a new social media platform

Tan KW
Publish date: Sun, 27 Mar 2022, 01:28 PM
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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.

Musk was responding to a Twitter user's question on whether he would consider building a social media platform consisting of an open source algorithm and one that would prioritize free speech, and where propaganda was minimal.

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% voted "no".

"The consequences of this poll will be important. Please vote carefully," he said on Friday.

If 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.

None of the companies, including Donald Trump's Truth Social, Twitter competitors Gettr and Parler and video site Rumble, have come close to matching the reach and popularity of the mainstream platforms so far.

 


  - Reuters

 

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OnTime

And I mean REAL free speech!

2022-03-27 14:26

Tobby

Nowadays, there's no free speech in social media! Youtube totally cancel out Donald Trump! Same with Twitter and Facebook! Since the founders of social media are now part of US obligachs!

2022-03-27 15:42

TrippleZ

How to prioritise free speech with minimal propaganda? How to even differentiate free speech from propaganda? Illogical.

2022-03-27 16:17

Tobby

TrippleZ! It's possible! Because the powerful are using bots to spread their propaganda! That' why you see tons of pro Putin comments in social media praising him when in actually fact, it's just a repeated message with different users or variation! AI today has really evolved!
Anyway, with good algorithm, this can be prevented!
Problem is, the social media giants today are so sick! Today you have this WOKE, black matters, gender rights, woman rights and so forth! Yeah, social media promote guys to become women! promote women to be head of everything but cry victim if you tell them why dont women do the same dirty jobs like becoming mechanics, garbagewomen and so forth!
Social media nowadays remove humanity critical thinkers! Instead you only see jokers, comedians, senile leaders given the positive highlights!

2022-03-27 16:42

Tobby

Anyway, Putin is already been cancelled out from social media! At least he has a friend Donald Trump who is social media giants outcast!

2022-03-27 16:43

TrippleZ

I am leaning toward pro putin. So I am also part of the bots ?

2022-03-27 17:11

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