{"id":5539,"date":"2022-04-28T14:36:19","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T12:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/28\/elon-musk-says-twitter-must-be-neutral-as-wave-of-leftwing-users-quit\/"},"modified":"2022-04-28T14:36:19","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T12:36:19","slug":"elon-musk-says-twitter-must-be-neutral-as-wave-of-leftwing-users-quit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/28\/elon-musk-says-twitter-must-be-neutral-as-wave-of-leftwing-users-quit\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk says Twitter must be \u2018neutral\u2019 as wave of leftwing users quit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World\u2019s richest man aims to reassure followers saying he will not seek to politicise social media network<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/apr\/27\/elon-musk-tweets-criticising-twitter-staff-acquisition-deal\">Controversy grows after Musk engages with tweets criticising staff<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Elon Musk has said Twitter must be \u201cpolitically neutral\u201d, in a comment posted last night after a wave of account deletions by left-leaning users on the social media network.<\/p>\n<p>In the days since Musk\u2019s $44bn (\u00a334.5bn) acquisition offer was accepted by Twitter\u2019s board, hundreds of thousands of users have closed their accounts on the site, the company confirmed, leading to a dip in follower numbers for left-leaning politicians and celebrities such as Barack and Michelle Obama, Taylor Swift and Jeremy Corbyn.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/apr\/28\/elon-musk-says-twitter-must-be-politically-neutral-as-some-leftwing-users-quit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/0e7375ce10bfc83a1d820b802ab766706cec88c6\/0_177_5301_3181\/master\/5301.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=de0b73459e4bd281eb6ed7a5fb5e3287\" title=\"Elon Musk says Twitter must be \u2018neutral\u2019 as wave of leftwing users quit\" \/>World\u2019s richest man aims to reassure followers saying he will not seek to politicise social media network<br \/>\nControversy grows after Musk engages with tweets criticising staff<br \/>\nElon Musk has said Twitter must be \u201cpolitically neutral\u201d, in a comment posted last night after a wave of account deletions by left-leaning users on the social media network.<br \/>\nIn the days since Musk\u2019s $44bn (\u00a334.5bn) acquisition offer was accepted by Twitter\u2019s board, hundreds of thousands of users have closed their accounts on the site, the company confirmed, leading to a dip in follower numbers for left-leaning politicians and celebrities such as Barack and Michelle Obama, Taylor Swift and Jeremy Corbyn. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World\u2019s richest man aims to reassure followers saying he will not seek to politicise social media network Controversy grows after Musk engages with tweets criticising staff Elon Musk has said Twitter must be \u201cpolitically neutral\u201d, in a comment posted last night after a wave of account deletions by left-leaning users on the social media network. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/28\/elon-musk-says-twitter-must-be-neutral-as-wave-of-leftwing-users-quit\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Elon Musk says Twitter must be \u2018neutral\u2019 as wave of leftwing users quit<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5539"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}