Twitter owner and CEO, Elon Musk has stated that every social media company is engaged in heavy censorship, with significant involvement of and at times, explicit direction of the government.
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The Billionaire was responding to a series of tweets from Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi), where he (Matt Taibbi) on internal Twitter communications which stated that “the Government was in constant contact not just with Twitter but with virtually every major tech firm.”
Taibbi went on to list some of the companies; “these included Facebook, Microsoft, Verizon, Reddit, even Pinterest, and many others. Industry players also held regular meeting without government.”
To buttress his point, Elon Musk stated that Google frequently makes links disappear. Although Musk did not explicitly mention the US government, the thread of the conversation implies that he was referring to them (The Government of the United States of America).
Most people don’t appreciate the significance of the point Matt was making:
*Every* social media company is engaged in heavy censorship, with significant involvement of and, at times, explicit direction of the government.
Google frequently makes links disappear, for example.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 27, 2022
Since his purchase of Twitter, Musk has been releasing documents on Twitter censorship, the latest being “how Twitter rigged the Covid debate.”
Nnamdi Maduakor is a Writer, Investor and Entrepreneur
