Senator of Massachusettsin the United States, Edward Markey he urged Elon Musk because a journalist of the Washington Post he created a fake account that impersonated him, complete with a blue check paid for 8 dollars. “Twitter must explain how it happened and how to prevent it from happening again,” wrote the senator on November 11. And today, November 13, Musk’s answer arrives in ironic tones. “Maybe it’s because your real account sounds like a parody?” he replies. Then in a second tweet he adds: «Why do you have a mask in your profile picture?». The Senator dem, in the letter sent to Musk, denounced: «Security measures like the blue check mark once allowed users to be critical consumers of news, but your takeover of Twitter, the rapid and haphazard imposition of platform changes and the removing the safeguard against disinformation hastened Twitter’s descent into wilderness. The CEO of Twitter is not new to responses of this kind. Also, the day before the Midterm US election Invitation voters to vote for Republicans. «To independent voters: Shared power curbs the worst excesses of both parties, therefore council to vote for a Republican Congress, given that the presidency is democratic,” he wrote on his Twitter profile. Endorsement that has ignited quite a few controversies among users, above all by virtue of the neutrality of the social network that Musk had so much hoped for.
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