twitter swamp would be refilled with alalligators, crocodiles, serpents and prognosticators of hate speech. this has to be resisted because this is a threat to many americans and people all over the globe. twitter had made progress, not enough with its content moderation approach, you know, and had taken these folks rightfully off of twitter. now elon musk is allowing people like david duke, ye, others who have been promoters of hatred, promoters of conspiracy theories, back on this site, and i can tell you it s important that we resist this effort, that we take every step available to us at this point to resist the idea that this site seems to be moving in the direction of being the most favored site for every
how to a a range. a range of options to combat this. your group still operates a twitter page. you promote your programs there, and you still in some ways drive traffic to the page. we do. by trying to get people to follow and retweet and draw them to your elements. why not start by pausing your own page if the place is so awful? so twitter is so powerful and monopolistic, what we can t do is unilaterally silence ourselves in an effort to if you will, fight twitter. for us to remove ourselves from twitter would not by ourselves have the impact of altering musk s approach, and if you will, stopping him from doing what he s doing. so that s why i said, a range of options and i m not going to telegraph all the steps that we re going to take, but we re not going to unilaterally disarm. we re not going to engage in
options at the ftc and the sec, calling on apple and google to remove twitter from its app store, encouraging people to perhaps desubscribe from twitter. i think we need to use a range of steps to rein in what elon musk is now doing. we re considering and i know many others are calling for a variety of these things, stepping to be taken to rein elon musk in. victor, at the core of the matter is that the internet and social media which is a powerful invention and a powerful tool, is now being hijacked by people. this calls out there needs to be public policy guardrails, a set of rules and regulations. whether it s going to come from the federal government or state governments or local governments yeah. this is the direction. there s got to be a reset with respect to how social media is
comfortable associating with people who have expressed anti-semitic views and in this case kanye west started posting this week on twitter that he had visited trump at mar-a-lago, and said that he had been there with nick fuentes who is a known holocaust denier and someone who has made a series of inflammatory statements over the last couple of years. so they had dinner apparently. trump has now acknowledged this dinner in a truth social post that i will read to you. he said the former president said, this past week kanye west called me to have dinner at mar-a-lago. shortly thereafter he unexpectedly showed up with three of his friends whom i knew nothing about. we had dinner on tuesday evening with many members present on the back patio. the dinner was quick and uneventful. they then left for the airport, but this is something that we
first shakeout of the kind of technology that s going to allow us to really have get beyond the moon over the next 5, 10, 20, 30 years. adam frank. you always bring it home for us. so exciting. thank you so much. good to see you. a pleasure. the drama never stops over twitter. elon musk says amnesty begins next week for previously su suspended accounts. one expert warned it will be like opening the gates of hell. and former president trump had dinner with ye, the rapper formerly known as kanye west along with a white nationalist and holocaust denier this week at mar-a-lago. new reporting next.