Elon Musk Says Buying Twitter Isn't About Making Money

Speaker 1: This is CNET. And here are the stories that matter right now. Elon Musk says his offer to purchase Twitter for 43. Billion is not a way for him to make money, but rather he made the offer because he thinks the future of Twitter is important to the function of democracy. Musk, the CEO of both Teez and SpaceX spoke about why he wanted to own Twitter in an interview in front of a live audience at the Ted 2022 conference in Vancouver, Canada, the Speaker 2: [00:00:30] Twitter has become kind of the defacto town square Speaker 1: Musk told Ted host. Chris Anderson that if he did get his offer to buy Twitter accepted, then his main goal would be to help, help strengthen the perception of free speech by making it more transparent when a human or algorithm makes any change to the visibility or the weight of a user's tweets, Speaker 2: Really important that people have the, both the, uh, the reality and the perception, uh, that they're able to speak freely within [00:01:00] the bounds of the low. Speaker 1: He also express concern and reluctance over permanent bands on users. Musk also said that he had a plan B if this offered by Twitter was denied, he did not elaborate in an SCC filing earlier that morning. Musk said in a written statement, Twitter has extraordinary potential. I will unlock it. Stay up to date with the latest by visiting Sena.