Elon Musk, the largest shareholder in Twitter Inc., has proposed turning the San Francisco-based social media company into a homeless shelter because “no one shows up anyway.” Musk made the proposal via a Twitter poll on Saturday night. Nearly 1.2 million people had responded by Sunday morning and 91.1% of them had voted in favor of the idea. ELON MASK BUYS SHARE ON TWITTER AFTER ENDING HIS APPROACH TO “FREE SPEECH” Musk’s poll comes a week after he bought a 9.2% stake in Twitter, making him the company’s largest shareholder. Musk has been critical of Twitter’s handling of free speech on the platform and has proposed some changes to the company since buying its shares. He posted another poll on Twitter on Sunday morning about whether the letter “W” will be removed from “Twitter”. The only answers available were “Yes” and “Of course”. Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal announced that Musk will join Twitter’s board last week. Musk will also attend a City Hall Q&A session with Twitter employees, some of whom have expressed concern about Musk’s presence in the company, Agrawal told employees on Thursday. “We say Twitter is what is happening and what people are talking about right now. Often, we on Twitter is what happens and what people talk about. “It definitely happened this week,” Agrawal wrote in an email across the company on Thursday, according to the Washington Post. “Since the announcement of our board, many of you have had different types of questions about Elon Musk and I welcome you to ask these questions. in him.” TESLA WILL HOST LARGE OPENINGS OF 15,000 PEOPLE NEXT MONTH AT NEW GIGAFACTORY IN Austin, TX The purchase of Musk comes right after the billionaire founder of Tesla criticized Twitter due to a lack of commitment to freedom of speech. “As Twitter functions as the city’s de facto public square, failure to uphold the principles of freedom of speech fundamentally undermines democracy,” Musk wrote on Twitter on March 26. “What should be done?” “Do you need a new platform?” he later wrote on Twitter. GRUENHEIDE, GERMANY – AUGUST 13: Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Armin Laschet, CDU Federal President and Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, speak during a tour of the factory’s future on August 13 at the factory Gr (Photo by Patrick Pleul – Pool / Getty Images) / Getty Images) Many of Musk’s nearly 80 million followers on Twitter at the time encouraged him to buy the entire Twitter platform or create his own. GET FOX BUSINESS IN ENGINE BY CLICKING HERE Twitter has repeatedly censored conservative views in recent years. The company blocked the conservative satire site The Babylon Bee from its Twitter account for jokingly rewarding Biden government official Dr. Rachel Levin “Man of the Year” award. Levine is a trans woman. Twitter also blocked the sharing of links in an article in the New York Post that revealed the contents of a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden. While critics ridiculed the story as Russian misinformation at the time, both the New York Times and the Washington Post have since recognized that the story was accurate.
