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Whether one likes it or not, the world has come to phrases with the brand new Twitter headed by investor and industrialist Elon Musk. Lots has taken place in and across the microblogging big because the begin of FY22 together with the $44 billion buyout by Musk, mass quitting and firing attributable to dissonant work commitments, banning of commercials, criticizing earlier administration, the Twitter recordsdata, the notorious $8 Twitter Blue subscription, and lively promotion of hate speech attributable to modified privateness coverage.
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The platform’s CEO has been a vocal activist for creating an area at no cost speech. Additionally, its coverage and administration are one thing which has left the customers feeling blissful, no less than part of the inhabitants. Among the joyful and elated viewers included Carl Runefelt, Zain Jain, Christopher Jaszczynski, and Graham Allen. However, a New York Post report acknowledged that Musk’s takeover elevated slurs towards blacks, homosexual males, and Judaism by 202.3%, 58%, and 61% respectively in simply his first week.
On Wednesday, New York Post’s politics and tradition reporter Jon Levine took to Twitter and shared his ideas, tagging the micro-blogging website’s CEO.
“I wonder how much Wikipedia would cost? @elonmusk” Levine shared.
While Musk has but to answer the tweet, it was in reality Wikipedia’s co-founder Jimmy Wales who answered the query.
“Not for sale,” Wales quote tweeted, which has been preferred by over 187k customers.
<blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”><p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>Not on the market. <a href=”https://t.co/8by52xEgg4″>https://t.co/8by52xEgg4</a></p>— Jimmy Wales (@jimmy_wales) <a href=”https://twitter.com/jimmy_wales/status/1600566993274421253?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>December 7, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src=”https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js” charset=”utf-8″></script>
Another consumer shared a picture answering Levine.
<blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”><p lang=”qme” dir=”ltr”> <a href=”https://t.co/1PbFi8OqIN”>pic.twitter.com/1PbFi8OqIN</a></p>— Average Kit-kat enyoyer (@Syl_varanth) <a href=”https://twitter.com/Syl_varanth/status/1600259189892272128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>December 6, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src=”https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js” charset=”utf-8″></script>
The intention behind Levine’s tweet isn’t clear; it might be him taking a sly dig at Musk. However, it has definitely not sat effectively with Wales. The world is now very clear about what Musk’s views are on free speech and Wikipedia is the world’s largest free on-line encyclopedia.
While the tweet could also be one among simply hundreds of tweets Musk is tagged in, you by no means know what he’ll have up his sleeves. After all, Dave Smith, host and podcaster, definitely nonetheless thinks about that one gloomy day of 2017 when he made a mere tweet telling Musk “You should buy it”.
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