Elon Musk says Twitter must be politically neutral to 'deserve public trust'

Days after Tesla Chief Elon Musk took control over Twitter, he said that the microblogging site must be politically neutral to deserve public trust which effectively means "upsetting the far right and the far left equally."

"For Twitter to deserve public trust, it must be politically neutral, which effectively means upsetting the far right and the far left equally," Musk tweeted.

Musk engaged with Twitter users over the idea of political neutrality and said his goal is to "maximize area under the curve of total human happiness, which means the ~80% of people in the middle" and to do so, he has to upset both the rightwingers and the Left. "

The SpaceX owner wrote that since he acquired the platform, "attacks are coming thick and fast, primarily from the left, which is no surprise." But he added that "I should be clear that the right will probably be a little unhappy too."

Musk also posted, "Twitter DMs should have end to end encryption like Signal, so no one can spy on or hack your message." DMs are direct messages on Twitter. Previous reports have pointed out that DMs on Twitter are available even after a user deletes them.

He also posted a screenshot showing how Trump's social network, 'Truth Social' was doing better on the App Store compared to say Twitter or TikTok. It should be noted TikTok has over one billion users. Responding to his own screenshot, Musk posted, "Truth Social (terrible name) exists because Twitter censored free speech."

The Tesla owner has been constantly reiterating that Twitter needs to support free speech and it is something he will focus on, now that he owns the social network. Though he clarified that when he says free speech, he means it within the realm of what the law allows. He also tweeted that Truth Social should have been called 'Trumpet' instead.