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.”
