Musk Considers Making a 'Free Speech' Prioritized Social Media Platform

Space X CEO Elon Musk on Sunday said he was giving serious thoughts to creating a new social media platform.

Musk was responding to a question from someone on Twitter after he posted a poll with the question: given that "free speech is essential to a functioning democracy ... do you believe Twitter rigorously adheres to this principle?"

Results for the poll came in at a resounding "no," with 70.4% of respondents indicating that Twitter does not adhere to the principle mentioned above. Conversely, 29.6% of respondents replied "yes."

In total, the poll received 2,035,924 votes.

When asked if he would consider building a social media platform, Musk replied with, "am giving serious thought to this."

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