Musk Says He Faces 'Quite Significant' Risk of Being Assassinated: "If I Committed Suicide, It's Not Real."
Elon Musk spoke for nearly two hours in a 'Twitter Spaces' audio chat with more than 100,000 listeners on Saturday.
Musk has described himself as a "free-speech absolutist," vowing to be less restrictive with content moderation than Twitter's previous leadership.
He also said that there is "definitely some risk" to his personal safety during an extensive discussion about free speech, changes he has made to Twitter, and the release of internal communications from the fall of 2020 about what led the tech giant to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story.
"Frankly the risk of something bad happening or literally even being shot is quite significant. I'm definitely not going to be doing any open air car parades, let me put it that way," Musk said. "It's not that hard to kill me if somebody wanted to, so hopefully they don't."
This is the second time in 2022 that Musk has alluded to his mysterious death.
Musk also suggested Twitter favored Democrats over Republicans in its censorship.
Journalist Matt Taibbi published numerous internal Twitter documents showing how top executives handled censorship decisions surrounding the 2020 election.
"We're just gonna put all the information out there try to get a clean slate we will be iteratively better and it will force other media companies to also be more truthful or else they'll lose their readership," Musk said Saturday.
Musk went on to say that, while he has not inspected the documents personally, it appeared that there was "a very different standard applied to Republican candidates in the U.S. versus Democrat candidates" by those who used to be in charge at Twitter.
Elon Musk's content moderation plans for Twitter
Musk has fired many Twitter employees involved in content moderation. The company told Reuters this week that it's leaning heavily on automation to moderate content, favoring restrictions on distribution over outright removal of certain speech.
Elon Musk thanks advertisers for returning to Twitter
Advertisers have grown concerned over how content will get moderated even though Musk tried to assure advertisers that the platform will not become "a free-for-all hellscape."
On Saturday, Musk on Saturday thanked advertisers for returning to Twitter after multiple reports said big-name companies like $Apple(AAPL.US$ and $Amazon(AMZN.US$ would resume advertising.
Source: Business Insider, Reuters
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steady Pom pipi :
Mr Market : have faith in this talent in the long term . keep it up
yyou : Let's create conditions for his stock buyback and suppress the stock price to set a new low.
102945117 : isn't thatike Simpson prediction
TRIUMPHANT RETURNS : Imagine how tesla stock could crash if Elon was assassinated. Cathie woods probably dump big n buy GM Ford. Hehe
10102247 TRIUMPHANT RETURNS: That's why it's important not to have an influential or vocal CEO.
A backup CEO should be introduced to the public slowly.
In case of anything, at least the company will not fall.
Look at other companies’ CEO not being very vocal but are still doing well.
Sad that I bought Tesla