Not his favourite: Biden bashes Elon Musk and Twitter for spreading 'lies all internationally'

President Joe Biden criticized Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter throughout a marketing campaign rally in Illinois on Friday, warning the brand new possession would result in the unfold of "lies all internationally."

The president lamented Musk’s suggestion that he would roll again Twitter’s content material moderation insurance policies, arguing it could result in a diffusion of misinformation on the positioning.

Biden’s issues have been echoed by a number of others who've criticized Musk’s new possession, claiming it could result in a platform of hate speech and disinformation.

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"Elon Musk goes out and buys an outlet that sends — that spews lies all internationally," Biden stated throughout a marketing campaign occasion for Reps. Lauren Underwood (D-IL) and Sean Casten (D-IL). "There aren't any editors anymore in America. … How can we anticipate youngsters to have the ability to perceive what's at stake? What's at stake? So there's so much occurring, so much occurring. However now we have an unlimited alternative.”

Musk has repeatedly stated he intends to roll again a number of the social media platform’s content material moderation insurance policies however has maintained it wouldn't devolve into "a free-for-all hellscape, the place something could be stated with no penalties." The billionaire later introduced he would create a council to supervise content material moderation, noting “no main content material choices or account reinstatements will occur earlier than that council convenes.”

Musk’s management has raised issues for a number of, prompting a gaggle of greater than 40 organizations to pen a letter to Twitter’s prime advertisers, calling on the businesses to cease financing the platform as a result of it has change into "inundated with hate and disinformation." In the meantime, a number of conservatives have celebrated Musk’s possession, lamenting Twitter’s censorship insurance policies and arguing they unfairly goal right-leaning content material.

The brand new Twitter CEO has defended his insurance policies, arguing “correct data” would by no means be blocked or censored from the platform.

"The explanation I acquired Twitter is as a result of you will need to the way forward for civilization to have a standard digital city sq., the place a variety of beliefs could be debated in a wholesome method, with out resorting to violence," Musk wrote in an open letter. "There may be at the moment nice hazard that social media will splinter into far right-wing and much left-wing echo chambers that generate extra hate and divide our society."