X-Platform owner Elon Musk, who has publicly supported Trump’s bid for the US presidency, has responded to the second assassination attempt against former president The American asks in a tweet “why no one tried to kill Joe Biden or Kamala Harris”, a publication that caused great emotion and indignationand which he ended up eliminating shortly after.
However, many had already taken a screenshot of said tweet, an image that they shared on their social networks, in which they expressed their indignation towards the tycoon for “promote violence”something that violates the terms of service and rules of the social network X.
For his part, Elon Musk, seeing the controversy that his publication had aroused, limited himself to responding to certain users of the social network defending that It was “a joke”. “I don’t want to do what they did, not even as a joke,” he said in one comment, while in another reply to another user he said: “One lesson I learned is that just because you say something is good to do in a group and laugh at, doesn’t mean it’s going to be as funny in a post on X.”
Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billionin 2022, and since that day, the social network has changed a lot. “The first thing he did was fire peopleespecially in the field of moderation and security” commented Javi Salas, head of the Technology section of El País in laSexta Columna.
“When Twitter was Twitter, there were content moderators who They avoided hate speech or fake newsbut as soon as we want a so-called absolute freedom of expression, lies can also circulate in complete freedom and that for Elon Musk it is not a problem“, stressed Marta Garcia, journalist from El Confidencial.
For Salas, “the social network Twitter has become much worse in the diffusion of hate speech, homophobicagainst the trans community, racists, anti-Semites…” Indeed, an anti-Semitic speech supported by Musk has pushed several advertisers to withdraw their advertising, to which he reacted with arrogance: “Blackmail me with money? “Go fuck yourself!”
