Elon Musk and MP Alexandria Okasio-Cortez had an awkward interaction on Twitter on Friday. A “billionaire with a problem with me” who “controls a huge communication platform” crashed. Musk responded, but Ocasio-Cortez said he was talking about Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
In a remarkable social media exchange on Friday, billionaire Elon Musk told Alexandria MP Ocasio Cortez to “stop flirting with him” after a lawmaker criticized an anonymous “me billionaire”. “Tired of having to worry collectively about what a hate crime outbreak is, for example, a billionaire with a problem I unilaterally controls a huge communication platform and distorts it because Tucker Carlson or Peter Thiel took him to dinner and made him feel special “, the New. York progressive wrote in a tweet on Friday. Musk, whose takeover bid was accepted by Twitter earlier this week, then replied: “Stop hitting me, I’m really shy.” Ocasio-Cortez said it was ridiculous in a tweet that has now been deleted that it referred to a different billionaire, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. “I was talking about Zuckerberg but okay,” the New York MP replied. Neither Musk nor Zuckerberg responded to the deleted tweet. Ocasio-Cortez’s original tweet, which named after Fox News presenter Carlson and venture capital Thiel, may have referred to a 2019 Politico report claiming that Zuckerberg had a confidential dinner with Carlson. Thiel, Zuckerberg’s longtime mentor, was one of Facebook’s first investors. Meanwhile, Theil and Musk have been dating since Paypal was founded in 2000, although they appear to have a love-hate relationship. And this week, Carlson said he would return to Twitter after the acquisition of Musk. Both social media companies are embroiled in an ongoing cultural war for freedom of speech. Twitter, for example, has been criticized for allowing accounts that reinforce misinformation. Many believe that Musk, the so-called “absolute of free speech”, can restore accounts that were previously blocked for violating hate speech or the platform’s political misinformation. Facebook has been criticized in the past for allowing the spread of far-right misinformation. Read the original article in Business Insider
