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What Musk is up to now: why the CEO of Twitter is (again) screaming at Meta

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What Musk is up to now: why the CEO of Twitter is (again) screaming at Meta

At the beginning of 2021, the owner of Tesla had invited WhatsApp users to boycott the chat for Signal: now Musk is back to launching attacks against Meta

A new day, a new enemy. Or perhaps it would be better to say new target, given that many of the controversies animated by Elon Musk are born and die on his Twitter account, without the interested parties picking up on the provocation. Lately, the South African entrepreneur's somewhat coarse attacks had had artificial intelligence as their object: first the Tesla owner accused the company of Sam Altman , recalling that OpenAI was born as a non-profit, while today it is devoted to business thanks to the multi-billion dollar deal with Microsoft. So, not happy, he took it out on the Redmond Colossus, claiming that Microsoft would have used Twitter data without authorization to train artificial intelligence software. As we read on The Verge Microsoft declined to comment. The new match that animates his social network now seems to be Musk against Meta…

WHAT MUSK SAID AGAINST META

In the past few hours, the CEO of Twitter has shared the post of a Twitter engineer (of one of his employees, in short) in which we see the screenshot with all the times in which WhatsApp would have accessed the user's microphone without his knowledge. “WhatsApp cannot be trusted,” Musk commented.

Continuing the conversation with his followers, Elon Musk revealed the real target of his arrows, recalling that the founders of WhatsApp abandoned Meta to give life to the Signal project: "They left Meta disgusted, launching the #delegatefacebook campaign". He added: "What they learned about Facebook and the changes to WhatsApp obviously upset them a lot."

AND MUSK TWITTED: USE SIGNAL

It is not the first time that the owner of Twitter has made similar speeches. At the beginning of 2021, taking advantage of the controversy caused by the fact that Mark Zuckerberg's group had announced a change to its rules and terms of service starting from February 8 of the same year, Elon Musk had invited all his followers to 'boycott' WhatsApp recommending Signal.

Also as a result of those two words, "use Signal", bounced over 40,000 times, the rival app to WhatsApp had recorded a boom in new users. Signal itself had had to warn users that it was experiencing a delay in sending verification codes to new users due to the high number of subscriptions to the app.

MUSK AGAINST META

In short, this seems to be the second round of a clash that began in 2021. A few hours earlier, Musk had already launched his campaign against Meta by re-sharing an article accusing Mark Zuckerberg of having "bought" the 2020 elections in the United States.

During the 2020 election – reads the article linked by the Tesla patron -, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg spent hundreds of millions of dollars to turn out likely Democratic voters. But this wasn't traditional political spending. He funded a targeted, private takeover of government election operations by nominally non-partisan — but demonstrably ideological — non-profit organizations.

We recall that the slogan of the stolen election was the basis of the Capitol Hill riots on January 6, 2021, which led to Donald Trump 's ban from all social media. A ban that Musk has always opposed. Could the latest quarrels have political roots?

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/che-combina-ora-musk-perche-il-ceo-di-twitter-strilla-ancora-contro-meta/ on Thu, 11 May 2023 05:53:27 +0000.