“There has been much speculation about why I bought Twitter, and what I think about advertising. Most of it has been wrong,” Musk said on Twitter on Thursday. Musk said his primary motivation for buying the company is to ensure the “future of civilization.” He said the goal is to preserve a “common digital town square,” where people with wide-ranging beliefs can debate their views without resorting to violence, rather than splintering into “far right-wing and far left-wing echo chambers.” Cutting down on spam has been one of Musk’s top priorities for Twitter since announcing the buyout deal. Bot spam is especially prevalent in the crypto community, where scammers often adopt the identities of influencers, like Musk, to lure in investors. Crypto bots trying to scam Elon Musk by pretending to be him is peak spam. https://decrypt.co/112992/elon-musk-explains-why-twitter-dogecoin
Crypto News: Musk clarified that he has nointention of making Twitter a “free-for-all hellscape” with “no consequences”
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