California [US]: In his standard satire, Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Monday accused the American tech large “Apple” of threatening to withhold Twitter from its App retailer with out disclosing the rationale behind the motion.
In a tweet, Musk wrote, “Apple has additionally threatened to withhold Twitter from its App Retailer, however received’t inform us why,” as he ridiculed the choice of the gadget-making firm.
Elon Musk has been attempting to revamp Twitter ever since he took management of the microblogging website.
The earlier week, Musk introduced a brand new Twitter coverage and mentioned that the social media platform will not promote tweets containing hate speech or in any other case “adverse” content material.
In a tweet, he mentioned that “New Twitter coverage is freedom of speech, however not freedom of attain.” He additionally knowledgeable that Twitter will demonetize and never promote tweets containing hate speech or in any other case “adverse” content material.
“New Twitter coverage is freedom of speech, however not freedom of attain.Unfavorable/hate tweets will likely be max deboosted & demonetized, so no advertisements or different income to Twitter. You received’t discover the tweet until you particularly search it out, which isn’t any completely different from the remainder of the Web,” he tweeted.
He additionally introduced that Twitter plans to revive a number of controversial accounts that had beforehand been banned or suspended, which additionally included the account of former President Donald Trump.
Earlier in 2020, Trump’s account was suspended within the wake of the January 6 revolt at Capitol Hill following the US Presidental elections, leading to authorized troubles for the previous US President.
This new coverage isn’t any shock because the world’s richest man has made a number of choices on this method, together with one to purchase Twitter.
The Tesla CEO did so by alleging that Twitter violated their mutual buy settlement by misrepresenting the variety of spam and pretend bot accounts on its platform.
After Musk put out the deal termination announcement, the US market noticed a pointy decline. Later, Twitter sued Musk accusing him of utilizing bots as a pretext to exit a deal. And just lately, Musk moved ahead with the Twitter buyout on the initially agreed worth of USD 54.20 per share. (ANI)