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Should Elon Musk’s Ownership of Both Twitter and Tesla Concern People? Exploring the Potential for Manipulation

Bora Erbaşoğlu
5 min readSep 11, 2024

The billionaire businessman Elon Musk, who founded SpaceX, Tesla, and a number of other companies, caused a stir in 2022 when he bought Twitter, which is now rebranded as “X.” This acquisition sparked concerns about how one person with such enormous influence across numerous industries may utilize a platform as potent as Twitter to advance his commercial and personal goals. This article investigates whether or not people should be concerned about Musk’s dual ownership of Twitter and Tesla, as well as whether or not there is a chance that he could manipulate events.

1. The Power of Influence and Control

With one of the biggest Twitter followings, Elon Musk is undeniably able to sway public opinion, markets, and even entire industries. His previous tweets affected the value of equities, particularly Tesla’s, and cryptocurrencies. They also changed the direction of discussions on issues like artificial intelligence, space exploration, and renewable energy.

By controlling Twitter, Musk not only gains control over a platform on which he exerts influence, but also over the infrastructure that supports it, determining what information is prioritized or repressed and how content is…

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Bora Erbaşoğlu
Bora Erbaşoğlu

Written by Bora Erbaşoğlu

Predictive Development Manager, AI Researcher, Python,React, React Native, PHP, Java Expert professionally since 1999. Open for consulting & dev projects

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