The Twitter CEO accused the tech big of giving up promoting on the platform after his takeover
The brand new boss of Twitter, Elon Musk, has accused Apple of “hating free speech in America” and taking varied hostile strikes in opposition to the platform. The billionaire launched the broadside in opposition to the corporate in a Twitter thread on Monday.
“Apple has largely stopped promoting on Twitter,” Musk claimed, including in a separate put up that the corporate “has additionally threatened to withhold Twitter from its App Retailer, however received’t inform us why.”
The entrepreneur denounced Apple for actively suppressing freedom of expression, launching a ballot on whether or not the corporate “ought to publish all censorship actions it has taken that have an effect on its clients.”
Inside simply two hours, almost one million Twitter customers took half in it, with greater than 85% voting for the transfer.
Apple ought to publish all censorship actions it has taken that have an effect on its clients
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 28, 2022
Ramping up his assault on the tech big, Musk additionally wrote about “a secret 30% tax on every part you purchase by means of their App Retailer.” In actual fact, the 30% fee reaped by Apple has lengthy been broadly criticized and even sparked a serious courtroom battle in opposition to Epic Video games, which the corporate in the end misplaced.
The billionaire accompanied his revelation with a meme, apparently implying he was able to go to “struggle” in opposition to Apple over the 30% fee.
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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 28, 2022
Musk has additionally reiterated his pledge to make Twitter itself extra clear and vowed to publish knowledge on the censorship practices the platform had been implementing earlier than his takeover.
The Twitter Recordsdata on free speech suppression quickly to be revealed on Twitter itself. The general public deserves to know what actually occurred …
Twitter has skilled a interval of turbulence after Musk grew to become its new CEO in late October, seeing what he known as a “huge drop in income” in current weeks. The billionaire blamed the downward spiral on dropping advertisers, lots of whom have halted their Twitter campaigns amid his reforms of the platform. The adjustments included shedding half of the corporate’s workforce, together with the groups answerable for communications, content material ‘curation’, human rights, and AI ethics, in addition to charging customers for Twitter’s verification characteristic.