Billionaire Elon Musk, the new owner of Twitter, defended that the platform adopt a policy of freedom of expression that disappoints “equally” the extreme right and the extreme left, indicating that, under his management, the social network must reduce the frequency of removal. of publications.
“For Twitter to be trusted by the public, it must be politically neutral, which effectively means disappointing the far right and far left alike,” Musk posted on Wednesday.
For Twitter to deserve public trust, it must be politically neutral, which effectively means upsetting the far right and the far left equally
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 27, 2022
The businessman used Truth Social, an application that was launched by former US President Donald Trump after he was suspended from the blue bird network, as an example, to justify the changes he intends to implement on the platform. According to Musk, the competing company only exists because Twitter “censored free speech”.
No Brasil, apoiadores e aliados do presidente Jair Bolsonaro (PL) reclamam que as políticas do Twitter contra desinformação e discurso de ódio diminuem o alcance de suas postagens. This week, after the purchase of the platform by the South African billionaire, there was a movement of Bolsonarista profiles alleging an increase in engagement and celebrating the end of “censorship” on the social network.
President Bolsonaro himself has already had his publications removed – in 2020, two tweets by the chief executive about the covid-19 pandemic were removed from the air. The same has already happened with government supporters, such as Bolsonarista blogger Allan dos Santos and Pastor Silas Malafaia.
In a note on the occasion of the purchase of the platform, Elon Musk reinforced that one of his priorities for the company is to increase the limits of freedom of expression.
