The Tesla boss is considering creating a new social medium.
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The multi-billionaire and space entrepreneur, who in 2021 was named person of the year by the news magazine Time, helped Ukraine connect to the Internet with its Starlink satellites earlier in March.
On Twitter, he now hints that he will create a new social medium.
Responded to Twitter
– Speaking freely is crucial for a functioning democracy, he wrote on Friday and followed up with a poll on Twitter, the only social media he uses:
– Does Twitter follow this principle?
The answer was an overwhelming “no”.
He was also asked directly if he would consider creating a platform without hidden algorithms, where one can speak freely without propaganda. Then he answered:
– This is something I strongly consider.
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Musk last year surpassed Amazon founder Jeff Bezos on the lists of the world’s richest when Tesla rounded $ 1,000 billion in market value in October.
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TikTok
In addition to the space company SpaceX, may now have become a social media owner. He makes no secret of the fact that he is critical of TikTok, and he stays far away from Instagram.
He has obviously tested TikTok, because he calls the algorithms “annoying”.
– TikTok feels like such an obvious AI attack, that it is annoying, he wrote on Twitter on Sunday.
On the platform, you are largely exposed to what you like and have seen before. It can also be difficult to know what the facts are and what they are fake videos for example, from the war in Ukraine.
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