Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said on Monday that a social media platform could not be considered “inclusive or fair” if it discriminates against large swaths of the population.
The woman behind Libs of TikTok — a popular account that draws attention to progressive content — revealed that she had “received about a dozen death threats after radical leftists accused me of being a domestic terrorist extremist” and noted that Twitter had failed to act upon the threats.
Musk asked why — and one user responded by pointing out that “you can be banned for merely criticizing (not even threatening) woke progressives, but they can send conservatives death threats without any repercussions.”
Why? @Twitter
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 14, 2022
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“A platform cannot be considered inclusive or fair if it is biased against half the country,” Musk replied.
The comment comes weeks after Musk made an offer to purchase Twitter in its entirety and amid his frustrations with the Democratic Party’s leftward drift. The multibillionaire announced in May that he would favor Republicans in the midterm elections after voting “overwhelmingly for Democrats, historically.”
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