As the hours go by, we come across new details of the Twitter purchase Elon Musk. as assembled bloombergregulatory documents filed yesterday indicate that the new owner of the social network you will not be able to tweet messages that go against the company or its members.
Of course, this isn’t the first time Elon Musk has been ordered to soften the tone of his tweets. In 2019, he even had to get legal approval before posting Tesla-related posts. In any case, it’s not clear if he could have been reprimanded on Twitter if he didn’t comply.
The document provides that Elon Musk “will be allowed to post tweets about the merger or deals discussed in this document, provided that such tweets not discredit the company or any of its representativesYou could say it’s a sort of muzzle being applied to the South African-born mogul to try and contain any possible disagreement here until the acquisition is complete.
However, doubts are inevitable not only in the effectiveness of the measure, but also in the scope of its application. How can you tell when an Elon Musk tweet is belittling or vilifying Twitter and the people who are part of the company? Some cases are more explicit than others, obviously. Let’s not forget that the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX has criticized the social network for allegedly lacking freedom of speech; and even compared Parag Agrawal, its CEO, to Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin.
It goes without saying that Twitter intends to avoid such extreme situations that could affect the already turbulent environment the company is in these days. However, other scenarios for the application of this “clause” are not entirely clear.
Elon Musk will have to be more polite in his Twitter tweets
Blocking Tweets That Discredit Twitter did not stop Elon Musk from continuing to publicly criticize social networks, after all. And here is drawn that blurry line that we mentioned in the previous paragraph.
Yesterday, Musk responded to a journalist’s tweet Saagar Enkheti with a clear objection to leaving the platform before he arrived. The tycoon referred to an article that mentioned that the lawyer vijaya gadde, the legal director of Twitter, wept during a staff meeting; In it, the company’s employees expressed concern about the arrival of a new owner.
“Twitter’s leading censorship proponent, who manipulated the world with Joe Rogan’s podcast and censored Hunter Biden’s laptop story, is very upset about Elon Musk’s takeover,” Angety said. To which the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX responded, “Suspension of a major news agency account for publishing a true story was clearly incredibly inappropriate.”
So Elon Musk referred to the controversy surrounding the case of the son of Joe Biden, the current president of the United States. In 2020, both Twitter and Facebook restricted the distribution of one article from New York Post about an alleged connection between Hunter Biden and a Ukrainian energy company. This drew criticism, especially from the American right, who believed that the determination violated federal election law in the midst of a presidential campaign. To the point that even the Federal Election Commission was forced to investigate.
While Twitter later opted out of censoring the New York Post article, the decision drew internal criticism. Jack Dorsey himself, the founder of the social network, and then its CEO, appreciated the measure as “unacceptable”.
besides everything, it’s very unlikely that Elon Musk will stop his momentum when it comes to tweets. If you didn’t care in the past, why change now?
Source: Hiper Textual
