Elon Musk giving ‘serious thought’ to creating new social media platform

Tesla Inc Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk is providing “critical assumed” to setting up a new social media platform, the billionaire explained in a tweet on Saturday.

Musk was responding to a Twitter user’s problem on no matter whether he would take into account setting up a social media platform consisting of an open resource algorithm and one particular that would prioritize absolutely free speech, and in which propaganda was small.

Musk, a prolific user of Twitter himself, has been critical of the social media platform and its guidelines of late. He has claimed the business is undermining democracy by failing to adhere to free speech rules.

His tweet arrives a working day immediately after he place out a Twitter poll asking end users if they thought Twitter adheres to the principle of free speech, to which above 70% voted “no”.

“The outcomes of this poll will be important. Be sure to vote cautiously,” he claimed on Friday.

If Musk decides to go ahead with developing a new platform, he would be joining a expanding portfolio of technology firms that are positioning them selves as champions of cost-free speech and which hope to attract users who feel their views are suppressed on platforms such as Twitter, Meta Platform’s Fb and Alphabet-owned Google’s YouTube. 

None of the businesses, such as Donald Trump’s Real truth Social, Twitter rivals Gettr and Parler and online video site Rumble, have occur near to matching the achieve and attractiveness of the mainstream platforms so far.

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