An aide to President Vladimir Zelensky has claimed that Elon Musk is suppressing the Kiev authorities’s accounts on the platform
Ukrainian presidential adviser Mikhail Podoliak has blasted Twitter proprietor Elon Musk as a sympathizer for Russian propagandists, accusing the billionaire entrepreneur of “forcibly decreasing” the attain of the Kiev authorities’s accounts on the social media platform.
“Possibly you need to cease pessimizing Ukrainian official accounts and forcibly decreasing their attain,” Podoliak informed Musk on Wednesday in a Twitter put up. “It’s too apparent.”
The adviser to President Vladimir Zelensky went on to counsel that Musk has tried to assist “talentless” purveyors of Russian propaganda. “It gained’t assist them, and Twitter’s popularity is dying,” Podoliak claimed. “Possibly a regulator is required to elucidate competitors guidelines to the proprietor.”
It’s not clear which regulatory company Podoliak needs to unleash on Musk or which antitrust legislation he has supposedly violated. Many Twitter customers have complained in current days of declining attain and engagement of their posts. The corporate’s engineers are reportedly working to resolve a glitch that apparently arose when the platform tweaked a few of its options final month.
.@elonmusk, perhaps you need to cease pessimizing 🇺🇦 official accounts & forcibly decreasing their attain? It's too apparent. Don’t assist talentless ru-propaganda. It gained't assist them and @Twitter's popularity is dying. Possibly a regulator is required to elucidate competitors guidelines to the proprietor?
— Михайло Подоляк (@Podolyak_M) February 1, 2023
Musk supplied Ukraine free use of his Starlink satellite tv for pc communication service after Russia launched its army offensive in opposition to Kiev final yr. Media shops, together with the Economist, have credited Musk’s satellites with having “saved Ukraine and adjusted warfare.” Nonetheless, Zelensky’s regime has clashed with the Tesla CEO, akin to when Musk instructed final October that the battle could possibly be ended by providing such concessions as permitting UN-monitored secession elections in separatist areas.
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“F**ok off is my very diplomatic reply to you,” Ukraine’s then-ambassador to Germany, Andrey Melnik, informed Musk in response. “The one consequence is that now no Ukrainian will ever purchase your f**king Tesla crap.”
Musk purchased Twitter for $ 44 billion in October, vowing to make it a bastion at no cost speech. However he has additionally made enemies on the Russian facet of the battle. Vladimir Solovyov, a distinguished Russian tv host, not too long ago denounced the Twitter proprietor as a “struggle felony” for his help of Ukraine’s army.
Podoliak has a historical past of creating unsupported allegations, akin to his declare final week that the Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) took bribes from Russia to “promote genocide.” He made the accusation after the IOC floated the concept of permitting Russian athletes to return to competitions. In December, he accused Twitter of hiding traits associated to the Ukraine disaster, apparently dismissing the chance that public curiosity within the battle had declined.
