Elon Musk has announced that Donald Trump may be returning to Twitter. Musk justified this decision with the results of his personal Twitter poll. The @realDonaldTrump account and his tweets are back in full view just days after Trump confirmed he would run for president again in 2024. Shortly after taking control of the social network, Musk said he would not reopen suspended accounts until the company established and convened a content moderation council with "very diverse perspectives." . Instead, on Friday night, as people plunged into Thanksgiving weekend, he decided to vote for his followers on his Twitter. "Rehire former President Trump," he tweeted, along with a poll with buttons to select "yes" or "no." "Vox Populi, Vox Dei," he added in a follow-up tweet, in Latin, "The voice of the people is the voice of God." A "yes" answer won him by a narrow margin of 52-48. It's not clear how many of them were bots....
Elon Musk may have just won approval for a $56 billion pay package from his adoring supporters, but someone in Fort Lauderdale is clearly not a fan of the controversial CEO. Last week, dozens of Tesla Cybertrucks were defaced with the words “Fuck Elon” in black spray paint, according to InsideEVs citing local news reports. Police say that 34 stainless steel trucks were tagged with the message, which was discovered on Friday. The Cybertrucks were being stored in the public parking lot, without any fencing or security, likely being held because of a previously reported problem with the windshield wiper. Tesla is also experiencing an inventory pileup as a result of cooling demand for its electric vehicles. Local news reports that the spray paint was easily removed, with a few trucks still showing some black smudges. But thanks to a few social media accounts, we can still exper...
Elon Musk on Wednesday tried to walk back remarks lashing out at advertisers fleeing his X social media platform. At the Cannes Lions advertising festival in Cannes, France, Musk was asked by WPP CEO Mark Read what he meant by telling advertisers threatening to pull ads from the platform late last year to “go f--- yourself.” Musk said it was meant as a general point on free speech rather than a comment to the wider advertising industry. “It wasn’t to advertisers as a whole,” Musk said. “It was with respect to freedom of speech, I think it is important to have a global free speech platform, where people from a wider range of opinions can voice their views.” “In some cases, there were advertisers who were insisting on censorship,” Musk said. “At the end of the day … if we have to make a choice between censorship and losing money, [or] censorship and money, or free speech and losing money, we’re going to choose the ...
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