Bill Gates has warned that Elon Musk could make Twitter „worse“ and said that he isn’t clear of what the Tesla chief would do with the microblogging platform.
Bill Gates has finally spoken about Elon Musk’s move to buy Twitter, days after speculation of a serious disagreement between the two billionaires. He expressed uncertainty, and warned that Tesla’s CEO could actually make Twitter a „worse“ platform. The Microsoft co-founder also said that he is unsure of Musk’s motive of buying the platform. In addition to his comments on the Tesla chief’s move to pick Twitter, Gates responded about shorting Tesla, which Musk recently confirmed through his tweets targeting the business tycoon-turned-philanthropist. „He actually could make it worse,“ Gates said, referring to Musk’s decision to buy Twitter, while speaking at The Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council Summit. He also expressed his uncertainty about the buyout decision by the Tesla chief, which was also initially considered as a hostile takeover. „It’s not totally clear what he is going to do,“ 66-year-old Gates said. He added, that if „[Musk] makes Twitter worse, fine, I’ll speak out about that, but I wouldn’t assume that’s what’s going to happen.“ He also said social media needed to play a role in curbing misinformation. At the time of announcing the purchase last week, Musk stated that he wanted to make Twitter „better than ever“ by introducing „new features, making the algorithms open source to increase trust, and defeating the spam bots, and authenticating all humans.
