Though Musk has expressed a handful of grievances with Twitter over the years, his loudest and most consistent snubs involve his views on the company’s stance towards speech and content moderation.
After initially hinting he may join Twitter’s board after amassing a 9.2% stake in the company, Musk essentially flipped the boardroom table over and announced an offer to buy the company outright for $US54.20 ($75) per share in cash in a hostile takeover of roughly $US43 ($60) billion. Musk’s Vision for Free Speech Absolutist TwitterĮlon Musk has spent the better part of April trying to turn his favourite podium into his next play toy. adults between April 15-April 17, starting about a day after Musk announced his interest in acquiring Twitter in a hostile takeover. Morning Consult conducted its survey of 2,210 U.S. Those new figures provide some hard data to support what, on the surface, seemed like an outpouring of right wing support for Musk’s recent efforts to acquire Twitter.
Nearly two thirds (63%) of ideological conservatives said they believed censorship was a “major threat” in the U.S. Those already sizable gaps expanded even further when surveyors asked respondents about so-called “censorship,” a convoluted term which has become a bloody arena of debate dividing social media critics. Echoing concerns voiced by Musk, slightly more than half (51%) of Republican social media users say they don’t feel like they can freely express themselves on social media, compared to just 19% of Democrats who say so, according to a new Morning Consult survey.
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