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Musk to Break Silicon Valley’s Progressive Conformity?

May 16, 2022 By Debbie Young

SpaceX Chief Engineer Elon Musk answers a question from the press in front of the Crew Dragon that is being prepared for the Demo-2 mission, at SpaceX Headquarters, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019 in Hawthorne, CA. Photo credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

UPDATE 5.16.22: In a duo of recent tweets, Elon Musk discussed his plan to reduce “inadvertent” manipulation in Twitter’s algorithms by making the site’s code open source. Both were tweeted on May 15.

In the first, he wrote: “I’m not suggesting malice in the algorithm, but rather that it’s trying to guess what you might want to read and, in doing so, inadvertently manipulate/amplify your viewpoints without you realizing this is happening.”

In the second: “Not to mention potential bugs in the code. Open source is the way to go to solve both trust and efficacy.”

Musk is discussing the apparent liberal bias in the Twitter algorithm, which he recognized in a response tweet to Mike Cernovich on May 9th.

Twitter obv has a strong left wing bias

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 9, 2022

Originally posted April 26, 2022.

On Monday, Elon Musk (Tesla) tweeted:

I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means.”

Last week, Musk modestly tweeted:

A social media platform’s policies are good, if the most extreme 10% on left and right are equally unhappy.

Curious/Hilarious

As the WSJ notes about the hyperbole surrounding Mr. Musk’s Twitter foray: (it) has been “curious, hilarious, and sometimes both.”

From Axios: Mr. Musk “is increasingly behaving like a movie supervillain.”

A former CEO of the social site Reddit wants government regulation “to prevent rich people from controlling our channels of communication.”

That line was published in an op-ed at the Washington Post, which is owned by the noted pauper Jeff Bezos.

Twitter’s Hidden Value?

Will Elon Musk be able to strike a satisfying balance on content moderation?

Maybe, guesses the WSJ, which would make Mr. Musk right about Twitter’s hidden value.

Current management is correct that most regular social-media users don’t want a daily bath of Russian bots, jihadist propaganda, noxious harassment and so forth. Ditto for advertisers, who represent about 90% of the company’s revenue. Yet Silicon Valley’s tech lords have decided they want to be arbiters of speech on political topics like climate change and the origins of Covid.

Elon Musk Looking to Change Twitter:

Musk’s recent press release:

Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated,” said Mr. Musk. “I also want to make Twitter better than ever by enhancing the product with new features, making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating the spam bots, and authenticating all humans. Twitter has tremendous potential – I look forward to working with the company and the community of users to unlock it.

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Debbie, editor-in-chief of Richardcyoung.com, has been associate editor of Dick Young’s investment strategy reports for over three decades. When not in Key West, Debbie spends her free time researching and writing in and about Paris and Burgundy, France, cooking on her AGA Cooker, driving her Porsche Boxter S through Vermont and Maine, and practicing yoga.
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