billionaire Elon Musk On Monday, Apple asked the CEO for clarification, Tim Cookbecause Apple assures in a series of tweets that the company has “stopped almost all ads on Twitter”. Wonders if Apple “hates the right to freedom of speech” in the United States.
The king and owner of Twitter launched a messaging campaign for Apple on his account, stating, “Apple has threatened to freeze Twitter from the App Store (the app service for its phones) and doesn’t give us reasons.”
He continues with another message in which he blames Apple without yet getting a response from Tim Cook. “Put a hidden 30% tax on everything you buy from the App Store”, and hints that he doesn’t plan to pay for it with a “meme”: there’s a two-lane fork on a highway: pay 30% or go to war and a car named Elon is seen choosing to go to war.
In another tweet he writes: “Apple should publish any censorship actions it takes that affect its users”and also opens one of Apple’s celebrity polls for users to decide whether to make these “acts of censorship” public; This survey was answered by more than half a million users (many of them “yes”) in less than an hour.
As EFE can confirm, currently the Twitter app is apparently working normally on Apple iPhones.
New blow to Twitter
If it is approved by Apple, it will mean a new blow to Twitter to withdraw the ads. Musk lost a significant portion of ad revenue: according to the public radio NPR network, the small bird network has already lost half of its main advertisers, who spent $750 million on the network this year alone.
After advertisers withdraw, sometimes publicly and other times confidential, fear Business Seeing the uncertain direction Twitter is taking manifested in decisions about content and as controversial as the recovery of Donald Trump’s account, which was suspended after the attack on the Capitol.
Elon Musk is often described as an “absolutist of free speech” and thus opposes excessive content control, but since his arrival this has grown into a larger presence on the hate speech network.