{"id":1450369,"date":"2022-04-22T13:12:54","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T17:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1450369"},"modified":"2022-04-22T13:13:09","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T17:13:09","slug":"elon-musk-reveals-some-changes-hes-planning-for-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-reveals-some-changes-hes-planning-for-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Reveals Some Changes He\u2019s Planning for Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Felon-musk-reveals-some-changes-hes-planning-for-twitter%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1450369&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><\/p>\n<h2>Billionaire announces two changes he plans to make to social media platform<\/h2>\n<div id=\"authorDate\">\n<p>\u00a0on&#038;nbsp22nd April 2022 @ 3.00pm <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<figure title=\"Elon Musk is planning to make some changes to Twitter is he succeeds in buying it\">\n<div class=\"articleImage\">\n<p><span class=\"creditNew\">\u00a9\u00a0press<\/span>\n<\/div><figcaption>Elon Musk is planning to make some changes to Twitter is he succeeds in buying it<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Tech billionaire Elon Musk has revealed some of the changes he is planning for Twitter if he succeeds in his bid to buy the social media platform.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The announcement from Musk came after he\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/Archives\/edgar\/data\/0001418091\/000110465922048128\/tm2213229d1_sc13da.htm\">submitted<\/a>\u00a0a new Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing confirming his plan to soon buy the company outright.<\/p>\n<p>The Thursday filing revealed that he has now secured $46.5 billion from three sources to buy the company.<\/p>\n<p>The fund includes $13 billion from Morgan Stanley, $12.5 billion from other banks, and $21 billion from himself.<\/p>\n<p>The offer is a significant increase from his initial $43B offer.<\/p>\n<p>Following the news regarding the SEC filing, Musk tweeted,\u00a0<em>\u201cIf our twitter bid succeeds, we will defeat the spam bots or die trying!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<figure title=\"Elon Musk has been promising big changes at Twitter\">\n<div class=\"articleImage\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/elon-musk-inside-man-twitter-board-321422.jpg\" alt=\"elon musk has been promising big changes at twitter\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"creditNew\">\u00a9\u00a0press<\/span>\n<\/div><figcaption>Elon Musk has been promising big changes at Twitter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After praise for his first idea, Musk then followed up with a second idea that wasn&#8217;t received quite so well.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAnd authenticate all real humans,\u201d<\/em> Musk added a short time later.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">And authenticate all real humans<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1517215736606957573?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 21, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Musk\u00a0said\u00a0during a TED Talk earlier this month that Twitter needed to make its algorithm open sourced and that any action the company takes against tweets need to be thoroughly explained to the public to stop <em>\u201cbehind the scenes manipulation\u201d<\/em> on the platform by the company.<\/p>\n<p>According to Musk, Twitter\u2019s secret algorithms, which he said promote some tweets while not promoting others, can be<em> \u201cquite dangerous.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Musk said when it comes to judging whether tweets should be taken down due to the nature of the content in the tweet, the policy should be: if in doubt, let the tweet exist.<\/p>\n<p>Musk has also floated the idea of having an edit button added for users.<\/p>\n<p>Musk\u00a0sparked\u00a0some controversy on Tuesday with a pair of tweets, one offering a <em>\u201cgood\u201d<\/em> metric for determining if a social media company\u2019s policies were effective and another asking who is behind <em>\u201cshadowy\u201d<\/em> censorship and de-platforming on the internet.<\/p>\n<figure title=\"Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has recently joined Elon Musk&#039;s criticisms of the company\">\n<div class=\"articleImage\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/jack-dorsey-bitcoin-legal-defense-fund.jpg\" alt=\"former twitter ceo jack dorsey has recently joined elon musk s criticisms of the company\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"creditNew\">\u00a9\u00a0press<\/span>\n<\/div><figcaption>Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has recently joined Elon Musk&#8217;s criticisms of the company<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Musk first replied to a tweet from tech entrepreneur Marc Andreessen, who wrote:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI predict essentially identical censorship\/deplatforming policies across all layers of the legacy Internet stack. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Client-side &#038; server-side ISPs, cloud platforms, CDNs, payment networks, client OSs, browsers, email clients. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;With only rare exceptions. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The pressure is intense.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cExtremely concerning,\u201d<\/em> Musk responded.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWho is pushing this censorship\/deplatforming? Very shadowy.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Less than an hour later, Musk said that a social media company\u2019s policies would be <em>\u201cgood\u201d<\/em> if the policies equally made extremes on both sides <em>\u201cunhappy.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cA social media platform\u2019s policies are good if the most extreme 10% on left and right are equally unhappy,\u201d<\/em> Musk tweeted.<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/neonnettle.com\/news\/18863-jack-dorsey-slams-twitter-s-board-amid-elon-musk-s-buyout-bid\">[READ MORE] Jack Dorsey Slams Twitter&#8217;s Board amid Elon Musk&#8217;s Buyout Bid<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire announces two changes he plans to make to social media platform \u00a0on&#038;nbsp22nd April 2022 @ 3.00pm   \u00a9\u00a0press Elon Musk is planning to make<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1450369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1450369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1450369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1450369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1450369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}