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Tuesday's U.S. midterm elections and stepping into the country's political debate that tech company executives have largely tried to stay out of - so their platforms wouldn't be seen as favoring one side over the other.
Musk<\/a>, who bought Twitter for $44 billion, has expressed political views in the past, on and off the platform. But a direct endorsement of one party over another now that he owns it raises questions about Twitter's ability to remain neutral under the rule of the world's richest man.
\"Shared power curbs the worst excesses of both parties, therefore I recommend voting for a Republican Congress, given that the Presidency is Democratic,\" Musk tweeted.
It's one thing for the CEO of Wendy's or Chick-fil-A to endorse a political party, said Jennifer Stromer-Galley, a professor at Syracuse University who studies social media and politics. It's a whole other thing, though, for the owner of one of the world's most high-profile information ecosystems to do so.
\"These social media platforms<\/a> are not just companies. It's not just a business. It is also our digital public sphere. It's our town square,\" Stromer-Galley said. \"And it feels like the public sphere is increasingly privatized and owned by these companies - and when the heads of these companies put their finger on the scale - it feels like it's potentially skewing our democracy in harmful ways.\"
Musk's comments come as he seeks to remake the company and amid widespread concern that recent mass layoffs at the social media platform could leave the company unable to deal with hate speech, misinformation that could impact voter safety and security and actors who seek to cast doubt on the legitimate winners of elections. Though Musk has vowed not to let Twitter become a \"free-for-all hellscape,\" advertisers have left the platform and Musk himself has amplified misinformation.
It's not a secret that when it comes to tech workers and executives, the political mix tends to favor the left, with a good amount of Silicon Valley libertarianism thrown in. Facebook<\/a> CEO Mark Zuckerberg, for instance has donated to candidates on both sides of the political spectrum, but in recent years he's veered more toward Democrats. Publicly he's stayed away from pledging allegiance to either party.
But in their platform policies and content moderation, tech companies such as Facebook (now Meta), Google and even Twitter have taken great pains to appear politically neutral, even as they are routinely criticized - largely by conservatives but also by liberals - for favoring one side over the other.
\"Now, you might say, look, Rupert Murdoch owns Fox News and that's his voice amplified,\" said Charles Anthony Smith, a professor of political science and law at The University of California at Irvine. \"But the difference is that gets filtered through a variety of different script writers and on-air personalities and all this other sort of stuff. So it's not really Rupert Murdoch. It may be people that agree with him on things, but it's filtered through other voices. This is an unadulterated direct contact. So it's an amplification that is unrivaled.\"
Musk's tweets could also stir up trouble in global politics outside of the U.S. elections. On Sunday, the billionaire signaled willingness to explore reversing decisions blocking some accounts of Brazilian right-wing lawmakers. The nation's electoral court last week ordered their suspension; all are supporters of Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro, who on Oct. 30 lost his reelection bid by a narrow margin, and most had aired claims of election fraud.
Paulo Figueiredo Filho, a political analyst who often defends Bolsonaro on social media and is also the grandson of the military dictatorship's final president, tweeted that Twitter has become a strict and spontaneous censor.
\"Your moderators are currently being more dictatorial than our own courts!\" Figueiredo wrote.
Musk responded: \"I will look into this.\"
The suspended accounts include that of Nikolas Ferreira, who garnered more votes in the October race than any other candidate for a seat in the Lower House. According to orders issued by the electoral authority, Ferreira's account and most others were blocked for sharing a live video from an Argentinian digital influencer questioning the reliability of Brazil's electronic voting system. The video was largely shared by allies of Bolsonaro, who himself has often claimed the system is susceptible to fraud, without presenting any evidence.
Twitter's policies, as of Monday, prohibit \"manipulating or interfering in elections or other civic processes.\"
In a tweet just two days after he agreed to buy Twitter in April, Musk said that for \"Twitter to deserve public trust, it must be politically neutral, which effectively means upsetting the far right and the far left equally.\"
And to attract the largest possible number of advertisers and users, Big Tech has tried to go this route, with varying degrees of success. For years, it managed to succeed. But the 2016 U.S. presidential elections changed online discourse, fueling the country's increased political polarization.
In early 2016, a tech blog quoted an anonymous former Facebook contractor who said the site downplayed news that conservatives are interested in and artificially boosted liberal issues such as the \"BlackLivesMatter\" hashtag. The blog did not name the person, and no evidence was provided for their claim.
But in the explosive political climate that preceded the election of former President Donald Trump, the claim quickly took a life of its own. There was plenty of media coverage, as well as as inquiries from GOP lawmakers, then, later, congressional hearings on the matter. In the years since, as social media companies began to crack down on far-right accounts and conspiracy theories such as QAnon, some conservatives have come to see it as evidence of the platforms' bias.
Musk himself is at least listening to such claims, and he's repeatedly engaged with figures on the right and far-right who would like to see a loosening of Twitter's misinformation and hate speech policies.
Evidence suggests those voices are already being heard. In an October study, for instance, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania found that \"Twitter gives greater visibility to politically conservative news than it does content with a liberal bent.\"
Musk's tweet garnered hundreds of thousands of likes and many retweets Monday on the day before the final votes are cast in thousands of races around the country. But in replies and retweets, many prominent (and not so prominent) Twitter personalities expressed criticism for the Tesla<\/a> CEO - often poking fun at him. For Smith, that's a sign Musk may not quite be a billionaire political kingmaker that some of his peers, like venture capitalist Peter Thiel, are aspiring to be.
\"I wonder if we're we're having the emergence of a new type of billionaire, the ones who want to decide what happens and get credit for deciding what happens,\" Smith said. \"So this more like an oligarchy approach than the old school billionaires who would drop lots of money but then they didn't want anybody to know their names.\"
Associated Press Writer Carla Bridi contributed to this story from Brasilia, Brazil.
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麝香的党派微博Twitter中立性提出质疑
麝香,他以440亿美元收购Twitter,表达政治观点在过去,在平台。但一方的直接支持另一个现在他拥有它让人质疑Twitter的能力保持中立的规则下世界上最富有的人。
周二的美国中期选举,走进这个国家的政治辩论,科技公司的高管在很大程度上试图远离,所以平台不会被视为偏袒一方。
麝香以440亿美元收购Twitter,表达政治观点在过去,在平台。但一方的直接支持另一个现在他拥有它让人质疑Twitter的能力保持中立的规则下世界上最富有的人。
“共享权力限制双方的荒淫无度,因此我建议投票给共和党的国会,鉴于总统是民主,“麝香推。
是一回事,温迪的CEO或菲尔支持一个政党,詹妮弗Stromer-Galley说,锡拉丘兹大学教授研究社会媒体和政治。不过,这是另一个事情的所有者之一,世界上最引人注目的信息生态系统。
“这些社交媒体平台不仅仅是公司。这不仅仅是一个业务。这也是我们的数字公共领域。这是我们的城市广场,”Stromer-Galley说。公共领域”,感觉越来越私有化和由这些公司,这些公司的领导把他们的手指时的规模,感觉它的潜在有害的方式扭曲我们的民主。”
麝香的言论之际,他试图重塑公司和人们普遍担忧,最近的大规模裁员在社交媒体平台可以离开公司无法处理仇恨言论,错误信息,可能会影响选民的安全,演员试图质疑选举的合法的胜利者。尽管麝香发誓不让Twitter成为“混战hellscape”,广告商已经离开了平台和麝香自己也放大了错误信息。
它不是一个秘密,当技术工人和管理人员,政治倾向于左边,和大量的硅谷的自由主义。脸谱网CEO马克·扎克伯格,比如捐给候选人两岸的政治派别,但近年来他转向更多的民主党人。公开他的任何一方远离宣誓效忠。
但在他们平台的政策和内容适度,Facebook等科技公司(现为元)、谷歌,甚至Twitter已经煞费苦心出现政治中立,即使他们通常批评——主要由保守派也被自由派——偏袒一方。
“现在,你可能会说,看,鲁珀特•默多克(Rupert Murdoch)拥有福克斯新闻和他的声音放大,”乐动扑克查尔斯•安东尼•史密斯说,政法教授在加州大学欧文分校的。”,但不同的是,透过各种不同的脚本作家和实况转播的个性和其他的东西。所以它不是真的鲁珀特•默多克(Rupert Murdoch)。也许人同意他的观点,但它是透过其他的声音。这是一个纯粹的直接接触。所以它是一个放大这是无与伦比的。”
麝香的twitter也可以在美国以外的全球政治选举。周日,这位亿万富翁表示愿意探索逆转决定阻止一些账户的巴西右翼议员。这个国家的选举法院上周下令暂停;都是巴西总统的支持者睚珥Bolsonaro, 10月30日了连任竞选的人以微弱劣势,和大多数播出声称选举舞弊。
政治分析家保罗球场,经常维护Bolsonaro在社交媒体上,也是最后的军事独裁总统的孙子,在推特上,Twitter已经成为一个严格的和自发的审查。
“你的版主正在比我们自己的法院更独裁!”Figueiredo wrote.
麝香回答说:“我要看看这个。”
暂停账户包括尼古拉·费雷拉,10月竞赛中获得了更多的选票比其他候选人在众议院的座位。根据选举委员会发布的命令,费雷拉的帐户和其他大多数被封锁共享实时视频从一个阿根廷数字影响力质疑巴西的电子投票系统的可靠性。Bolsonaro的视频主要是共享的盟友,他经常声称系统容易受到欺诈,没有提供任何证据。
Twitter的政策,截至周一,禁止“操纵或干涉选举或其他公民的过程。”
在仅仅两天之后他同意收购Twitter今年4月,麝香说,“Twitter值得公众信任,它必须在政治上中立,也就是说扰乱极右和极左同样。”
和吸引广告客户和用户的可能最大,大科技一直走这条路线,不同程度的成功。多年来,它能够成功。但2016年的美国总统选举改变网络话语,引发该国增加政治极化。
2016年初,科技博客援引一位匿名的Facebook前承包商现场淡化新闻表示,保守党人为地制造感兴趣和自由问题,比如“BlackLivesMatter”标签。乐动扑克这个博客没有名字的人,和没有提供证据的说法。
但在爆炸之前政治气候的选举前总统唐纳德·特朗普,索赔迅速采取了它自己的生命。有很多媒体报道,以及从共和党议员的调查,然后,之后,国会听证会。这些年来,随着社交媒体公司开始打击极右QAnon等账户和阴谋论,一些保守派人士都将它作为平台的偏见的证据。
麝香自己至少听这样的说法,他多次与图右边和极右谁想看到Twitter的错误信息和仇恨言论的放松政策。
有证据表明这些的声音已经被听到。在10月的研究中,例如,宾夕法尼亚大学的研究人员发现,“Twitter提供了更大的可视性政治保守具有自由倾向的新闻,而不是内容。”乐动扑克
麝香的tweet获得成千上万的喜欢和许多转发周一最终投票的前一天全国成千上万的种族。但在回复和转发,许多著名的(和不那么突出)Twitter个性表示批评特斯拉首席执行官——经常取笑他。对于史密斯来说,这是一个迹象麝香不太可能是一个亿万富翁政治国王拥立者,他的一些同行,像风险投资家彼得•泰尔有抱负。
“我想知道如果我们我们有一种新的亿万富翁的出现,那些想决定会发生什么,获得信贷决定会发生什么,”史密斯说。“这更像一个寡头政治的方法比旧学校的亿万富翁将下降很多钱但是他们不想让任何人知道他们的名字。”
美联社记者卡拉Bridi导致这个故事从巴西利亚,巴西。
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