By offering himself Twitter, Elon Musk adds a line to his impressive record of Stakhanovite entrepreneur, with Tesla, for the electric car, SpaceX, for rockets, SolarCity, for solar energy, or The Boring Company, for transport tunnels.
The entrepreneur, born 51 years ago in South Africa, and naturalized American after living in Canada, says he wants to fight for a freer speech.
"Freedom of expression is the basis of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the place of a digital village where we discuss issues vital to the future of humanity…Twitter has enormous potential. J 'I look forward to working with this company and the user community to release it,' he explained when announcing his desire to acquire last April.
Since formalizing its takeover on October 27, it has announced the dismissal of current CEO Parag Agrawal, as well as that of chief legal officer Vijaya Gadde.
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Taking control of Twitter therefore represents a new tool of influence for an entrepreneur who has very broad ideas.
Convinced that we live in a simulation, he relies in particular on a publication by professor of philosophy at Oxford Nick Bostrom, according to which extraterrestrial civilizations with advanced technological skills could easily play with our existence.
The thesis, totally counter-intuitive and often considered far-fetched, is taken seriously by some researchers, such as the astrophysicist from the New York Museum of Natural History Neil deGrasse Tyson.
The jack-of-all-trades entrepreneur also wants to make humanity an interplanetary species to protect it from extinction, and has planned to send 80,000 Earthlings to Mars by 2027. Another idea is to equip the humanity of a microchip to allow the latter to keep control of the artificial intelligence.
Subjects without taboos which would benefit from being able to be discussed on Twitter.
Very freely.
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