opening up the algorithm, so the public could see what the algorithm is doing, why are you seeing what you re seeing on the what is being blocked and down ranked and that is far beyond what facebook and instagram and others have pledged to do or even been asked to do by regulators and that could do a lot for trust. one of the things that he said over and over again is that he wants platform to be a place that people trust and understand. so let s put that on one side of the story. on the other side, there have now been numerous examples over the years where he has tried, when he was unhappy with either coverage in certain cases, or tweets that went out, there was somebody who was following his airplane at one point with what is public information, where he went after them, employees who have spoken out, so those are the two sides of this story. and then the timely you asked about former president trump, and he said at that ted conference that he didn t say it
do if he took it over? he spoke last week on the ted conference and the algorithm and open storage, because he feels there s had a lack of transparency and that people should have more clarity why a tweet is promoted and why a tweet is suppressed. and he had this interesting response in response to a question of okay, well, where do you draw the line? some tweets are violence inducing. he said when in doubt, keep it up. it s really about free speech and a lot more transparency and of course had many other colorful thing, turning twitter headquarters into a homeless shelter. i think that might be more inflammatory, like you said, his rants. i think it s about preserving free speech for preserving democracy. neil: and he was surprised so few board members were owners of the stock in the company. if you don t own the stock
election, and also, of course, we now know that russia shared a whole ton of misinformation that likely swayed a ton of votes. look at how many americans still refuse to get vaccinated against covid because of all of the misinformation that is being spread on the platform. so, they need to crack down the way that they need to do it is with more human moderators, but elon musk proposes taking the company in the opposite direction. he said at a t.e.d. conference on thursday that he thinks that basically free speech should be allowed and if it isn t legal, it should be allowed on the platform. that would leave tons of misinformation and tons of trolling. and ultimately, it would be bad for twitter because one thing we know is that women and other people who are abused on these platforms flee them. yeah. they don t continue to speak out because they don t want to kind of face down what is happening on the platform and it s kind of healthier and safer for them to