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American entrepreneur Elon Musk, who heads Tesla and SpaceX and owns Twitter, refused to delete a statement posted earlier by Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev on the Twitter social network.
One of Twitter subscribers earlier turned attention of Musk to Medvedev’s tweet on Saturday, when he stated why no one needs Ukraine any more.
The billionaire explained his decision by the fact that any news is essentially propaganda, so people must decide for themselves how they relate to this or that statement.
American billionaire Twitter owner Elon Musk refused to remove a propaganda post by Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev about Ukraine. Relevant statement the businessman did today, April 10, in response to one of the questions from social network users.
He commented on this by saying that any news is essentially propaganda, and people should decide for themselves how they relate to this or that statement. We are talking about Medvedev’s statement the day before that “Ukraine is of no use to anyone and there is no one to protect it.
The American billionaire responded that all news is propaganda to a certain degree and people should make decisions on their own adding that the platform at the issue was not intended to restrict or promote accounts of Russian state structures.
He also said that he himself was almost a victim of propaganda, because someone on the network spread information that Putin allegedly called him a war criminal for helping Ukraine.
“I was told that Putin called me a war criminal for helping Ukraine, so he’s not exactly my best friend,” he said.
Musk also emphasized that Twitter would not “neither promote nor restrict” Russian government accounts. But there will be no “censorship” either.
Recall, on April 8, Twitter testing showed that in recommendations to other users, the system issues the official account of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the page of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Russian Embassy in the UK, which were previously under restrictions.
Musk has repeatedly called on Ukraine to give up its territories to the Russian Federation in order to avoid a third world war.
On March 6, Twitter stopped protecting users from Russian propaganda. And in February, the billionaire called the Revolution of Dignity “a coup.
In April last year, Twitter announced that it would block social network users, who have accounts affiliated with the state authorities that allegedly restrict access to the "open Internet." A spokesman for the company said back then that the measure would primarily affect the Russian government and would involve more than 300 accounts.
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