LOS ANGELES: In October, polarizing billionaire and Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk purchased the polarizing social media platform Twitter for US$44bil (RM195.2bil), promising to change how the site operated.
In various statements, most of them tweets, Musk made allusions to decreased moderation on the platform, pledging to make the site a bastion of "free speech." In the months that followed, he implemented several new initiatives at the company and the site, including firing hundreds of employees, reinstating hundreds of previously banned accounts, stripping badges of verification from most users who did not pay US$8 (RM35 in Malaysia) per month for a Twitter Blue subscription, and pledging to address the site's bot problem.