Before he bought Twitter, Musk remarked, “I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means.”
Before he bought Twitter, Musk remarked, “I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means.”
(Continuing the long proud tradition of someone asking for the opinions of a specific group, and someone not in that group replying anyways…)
…I think what happened is by 2022, Elon had fallen into such a bubble he genuinely convinced himself his alt-right ideas were super popular, and the only reason social media tended to lean left was because right-wing voices were being “surpressed”. I think he honestly believed if he went free speech absolutist and removed all restrictions, right-wing voices would naturally dominate.
Of course, that didn’t happen, because the right-wing is a minority that’s shrinking every day. But instead of realizing he’d been wrong, he deluded himself into believing all the left-leaning folk had to be bots, because there’s no way the far right’s the minority, right? Right?!