the billionaire Elon Musk asked this Monday for explanations from the executive president of Manzana, Tim Cookbecause he assures that the apple company “has stopped almost all the advertising in Twitter“, in a series of tweets asking if Apple “hates the right to free speech” in the United States.
The tycoon and owner of Twitter began a message campaign for Apple on his account in which he assures that “Apple has threatened to freeze Twitter from its App Store (application service for its phones) and does not give us the reasons.”
With no response yet from Tim Cook, continues with another message in which he accuses Apple of “imposing a 30% secret tax on everything you buy through its App Store”and implies that he does not plan to pay for it with a “meme”: on a highway there is a fork with two lanes: pay 30% or go to war, and you see a car named Elon that chooses to go to war .
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In another tweet, writes that “Apple should publish all the acts of censorship it has taken that affect its users”and also opens one of its famous surveys for users to rule on whether Apple should make these “acts of censorship” public, a survey that in less than an hour has been answered by more than half a million users (most with a “yes ”).
For now, the Twitter application works with apparent normality on Apple iPhonesas EFE could verify.
Major brands have stopped advertising on Twitter
If confirmed by Apple, its withdrawal of advertising will mean a new blow to Twitter, which since Musk’s landing has lost a good part of its advertising revenue: according to the public radio network NPR, The little bird network has already lost half of its main advertiserswhich this year alone had spent $750 million on the network.
After the withdrawal of advertisers, sometimes public and other times discreet, there is the fear of companies when they see the uncertain course that Twitter is taking in relation to content, and that manifests itself in decisions as controversial as the restoration of Donald Trump’s account. , suspended after the assault on the Capitol.
Elon Musk is usually defined as “an absolutist of freedom of expression” and therefore contrary to excessive control of content, but since its arrival this has translated into a greater presence in the network of hate speech.
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