Elon Musk charges against Apple for “ceasing advertising on Twitter” and asks if he “hates the right to free speech”

Billionaire Elon Musk asked Apple CEO Tim Cook for an explanation today, because he assures that the apple company “has stopped almost all advertising on Twitter”, in a series of tweets asking if Apple “hates the right free speech” in the United States. The tycoon and owner of Twitter began a message campaign for Apple on his account in which he assures that “Apple has threatened to freeze Twitter from its App Store (application service of their phones) and does not give us the reasons”.

Still without a response from Tim Cook, he continues with another message accusing Apple of “imposing a secret 30% tax on everything you buy through its App Store”, and implying that he does not intend to pay for it with a “meme”: On a highway there is a fork with two lanes: pay 30% or go to war, and you see a car named Elon who chooses to go to war.

In another tweet, he writes that “Apple should publish all the acts of censorship that it has taken and that affect its users”, and also opens one of its famous surveys. for users to rule on whether Apple should make these “acts of censorship” publica survey that more than half a million users have responded to in less than an hour (most with a “yes”).

At the moment, the Twitter application works with apparent normality on Apple iPhones, as EFE was able to verify. If confirmed by Apple, Its withdrawal of advertising will be a new blow for Twitterwhich since Musk’s landing has lost a good part of its advertising revenue: according to the public radio network NPR, the little bird network has already lost half of its main advertisers, who had spent 750 million dollars this year alone In the net.

After the withdrawal of advertisers, sometimes public and other discreet, there is the fear of companies when seeing the uncertain direction that Twitter takes in relation to content, and that is manifested in decisions as controversial as the restoration of Donald Trump’s account, suspended after the assault on the Capitol. Elon Musk is usually defined as “an absolutist of freedom of expression” and therefore opposed to excessive control of content, but since his arrival this has translated into a greater presence in the network of hate speech.