Elon Musk puzzled if TikTok may very well be accelerating the decline of civilization.
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Elon Musk is questioning a doable a-tok-alypse.
The Tesla mogul is stirring the net cauldron but once more after postulating that TikTok may very well be accelerating the decline of world civilization. A tweet detailing the centibillioniaire’s controversial idea at present boasted over 425,000 likes as of Tuesday morning.
“Is TikTok destroying civilization? Some folks suppose so,” tweeted Musk, 50, including in a follow-up tweet, “Or maybe social media on the whole.” Prior to now, the Chinese language video-sharing app has been blamed for spawning dumb and harmful social media developments from the possibly lethal skull-breaker problem to the slap your instructor sport.
The SpaceX boss’ remarks are a 180 from feedback he’d made in a latest digital assembly with Twitter workers following his $44 billion bid to accumulate the social media platform. In the course of the sit-down, Musk had praised the Chinese language video-sharing app for “doing an amazing job of constructing positive you’re not bored,” in keeping with Enterprise Insider.
“I do discover a few of their movies offensive, however they’re not boring,” added the serial entrepreneur, who attributed TikTok’s attention-grabbing prowess to the truth that they “honed the algorithm to be as partaking as doable.”
Describing utilizing the Gen Z-targeting video platform for the primary time, Musk mentioned: “‘It does simply really feel like ADD [attention deficit disorder]… However like, subsequent stage.” Whereas he was clearly being hyperbolic, final yr, medical doctors warned of a daunting phenomenon during which younger ladies began exhibiting tic-like signs — which they attributed to them parroting widespread influencers with Tourette syndrome.
Regardless of TikTok’s purported shortcomings, Musk mentioned he desires Twitter to have the same engagement however “differently.”
“TikTok is fascinating, however you need to learn about critical points as properly,” the Neuralink mastermind mentioned.
Elsewhere within the assembly, Musk outlined his free speech coverage for Twitter, claiming that customers ought to have the ability to “say what they need” so long as it doesn’t “violate the regulation,” The New York Occasions reported.
Final week, the aerospace visionary fired a number of SpaceX workers who’d launched an open letter criticizing their CEO.
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