Billionaire Elon Musk said on Tuesday that there are still “some unresolved issues” in the $44 billion Twitter acquisition, particularly a “very significant” issue like the number of fake Twitter users.
“There are unresolved issues,” Elon Musk said at the Qatar Economic Forum, where he appeared in a video conference, but did not want to expand on the “sensitive” topic of his Twitter acquisition.
According to him, the social network considers the number of fake accounts and spam to be less than 5% of daily active users questioned by the businessman.
“We are always waiting for a solution on this very important issue,” said the Tesla boss. Space XWhen Twitter finally agreed to provide the necessary information on this in early June.
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“Twitter’s debt and shareholder vote are also issues that need to be resolved,” he said.
Elon Musk wants 80% of the population of North America and half the world to have access to the social network, and he realizes it should be “a space where people don’t feel uncomfortable or harassed”.
This is where the understanding of freedom of expression, which is “different from free access” to content, comes into play.
“Twitter should let people say what they want within the bounds of the law and limit what people see according to user preferences,” he argued.
If the acquisition is successful, Elon Musk wants to be Twitter’s “product pilot” without holding the CEO title, as he did with Tesla and SpaceX.
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