#1 @elonmusk says the mission of Twitter 2.0 is to be the most reliable source of information and to provide citizens with a way to control the narrative:
"The goal is to have Twitter be the best source of truth, the most timely and accurate source of truth, even if the truth is… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@elonmusk #2 @elonmusk says we must protect freedom of speech at all costs:
"What is the bedrock of a functioning democracy? It has to be free speech and a level playing field. That's why it's the First Amendment.
And why did they do that? Because where they came from, there wasn't… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
#3 @elonmusk says Twitter is the top news application worldwide, capturing the attention of the most influential individuals for 130 million hours each day, and the revenue potential is enormous:
""Twitter is, by the way, the number one news app in the world. In terms of what… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
#4 @elonmusk says to think of community notes as page rank applied to people:
"There's a whitepaper on community notes that I recommend reading. Think of it like page rank for pages as applied to people, which is as people build credibility in how they review notes, they build… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
#5 @elonmusk talks about himself and advertisers being community noted:
"The important thing is that anyone can be noted, including me, and in fact, I wanted to make a note of being noted. The point is that if I can be noted, anyone can be noted, including advertisers. This will… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
#6 @elonmusk talks about how the negative bias filter of legacy media results in a pessimistic worldview:
"Pick up any given newspaper and read the whole thing, and how many of those stories are positive about anything at all? Almost none. If something is newsworthy, it is going… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
#7 @elonmusk says Twitter suspended 800,000 accounts last month that distributed child sexual exploitation material, and the company has reduced successful searches for such material by 99% since December:
"What I've been told is that we've done more to eliminate [CSE material]… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
#8 @elonmusk says the primary reason that he purchased Twitter was his concern for the future of our civilization if we lost freedom of speech:
"Twitter would ban accounts on the right ten times more than on the left. This is naturally what you would expect, frankly, because we… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
#9 @elonmusk talks about Twitter's fractal Rude Goldberg machine codebase:
"At one point, there was a problem with Twitter spaces where suspended users were able to join conversations even though they were suspended, and we temporarily turned off access to Twitter spaces which… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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