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Censorship ‘Unhealthy for Public Discourse,’ Big Tech Manipulating Elections ‘For Some Time’: Musk

Musk opened up in a recent interview with Zuby regarding parenthood, digital intelligence, and online censorship

Censorship ‘Unhealthy for Public Discourse,’ Big Tech Manipulating Elections ‘For Some Time’: Musk
Elon Musk speaks at the 2020 Satellite Conference and Exhibition in Washington, on March 9, 2020. Win McNamee/Getty Images
Naveen Athrappully
Naveen Athrappully
6/22/2023|Updated: 6/22/2023
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Billionaire Elon Musk expressed his concern about threats to freedom of speech online and warned that big tech firms like Facebook and Google have been manipulating elections globally for some time.

One of the main factors that motivated Musk to buy Twitter was that he was becoming “increasingly concerned” about the lack of freedom of speech and “a lot of censorship,” the Tesla and SpaceX CEO said in a June 17 interview with podcast host and rapper Zuby. “I thought that’s really unhelpful and unhealthy for public discourse. So, how are people in a democracy supposed to make the right decision if they don’t have the right information, if they’re being misled, or [if] important information has been withheld, which obviously was the case in the Infamous Hunter Biden laptop situation.”
Naveen Athrappully
Naveen Athrappully
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Naveen Athrappully is a news reporter covering business and world events at The Epoch Times.
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