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‘Watch out!’: Steve Forbes says Elon Musk at Twitter ‘for the long haul,’ will ask the ‘tough questions’

April 6, 2022 | | Print Article

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Forbes Magazine editor-in-chief, author and former politician Steve Forbes is predicting that space and tech tycoon Elon Musk will have a long-term effect on the operations of Twitter now that he’s purchased $2.9 billion in shares of the social media platform and summarily joined its board of directors.

“Being an entrepreneur and knowing it can take years to make things work, [Musk] has got the patience and persistence knowing he can’t do this overnight,” Forbes said.

“But he is going to be there for the long haul. Watch out!” Forbes told Steve Doocy on Fox News’ “Fox and Friends” Wednesday.

Forbes told the host that although Musk had expressed musings about starting his own social media platform where free speech is paramount, it makes more sense for the billionaire to go after an existing one, especially one he has frequently criticized. A recent poll administered by Musk asked Twitter users if they believed the platform behaved in a way that held free speech as a tenet of a free society. Seventy percent of the respondents voted NO.

Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal made the announcement of Musk’s appointment to the board on Twitter – appropriately – though some questioned the sincerity of the well-known leftist’s excitement over the prospect.

“I’m excited to share that we’re appointing @elonmusk to our board!” the CEO typed.

Musk indicated that he too was excited and looking forward to making “significant improvements” at the company.

Forbes explained that Musk is highly intelligent, an astute businessman, and has the tenacity and patience to resist any dismissive attitudes from the other board members. He added Musk will be persistent and ask the tough questions needed, such as, “What are your algorithms? What gets promoted? What gets banned? and Why?” Forbes listed.

“They [Twitter] are not going to change easily, and Musk knows that. He knows how to persist. He knows how to ask the questions. He knows how to put pressure on,” Forbes said. “So, the idea of ‘oh, we will resist him and he will go away in 30 days,’ Uh-uh. He knows how to fight.”

Forbes said he believes one of the most important questions that Musk will raise, or at least should raise, is “Who on the outside, politically, tries to influence content and who gets to go on the Twitter-sphere?”

He went on to say that Twitter will likely dig in against Musk and his positions on free speech and censorship, but that Musk will stand fast and wear them down.

“[Musk] knows he can’t do it overnight,” Forbes said. “He knows by persistently asking the right questions: ‘Why did you do this?’ ‘Why did you do that?’ Suddenly, when you have to answer questions, it’s very hard to be quite as arbitrary as you were before.”

He intimated that perhaps even former President Trump might be reinstated on the platform. But Musk will almost certainly receive the same kind of vitriol. Any suggestion that free speech is the most important right Americans have is quickly followed by accusations of racism, or sexism, or the erroneous characterization that speech one disagrees with somehow equates to violence.

Where Trump was banned for tweets that more often than not were rooted in the truth, it may be more difficult for Twitter to ban one of their own board members in Musk.

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4 thoughts on “‘Watch out!’: Steve Forbes says Elon Musk at Twitter ‘for the long haul,’ will ask the ‘tough questions’”

  1. 🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮😵‍💫🥱😴🎱NYCs’ mayor Adams may sound and care like a native NY’er, except for when he opens his 🗣mouth, turds💩’s begin to quickly drop out of his facial hole. More to the point, mayor A. will never be as good of a mayor then Garys’ very own, professional “pot-hole” fixer dudet, Petey boy Buttigieg

  2. Elon is loved by the genZ and millennial bunch-but is it enough to except his conservative streak while living as one of the richest person(dude) on the planet🤔 I hope🤞 so.

  3. I hope Musk will clean up Twitter quickly. There is no place for censorship on a public open social platform. Only threats and criminal activity should be blocked. A Trump event is NOT criminal activity! Exposing Biden corruption is not a crime! Ivermectin is a useful virus drug and not illegal. Bring back Free Speech to Twitter!

  4. The board members fired Pappa John from his own pizza empire,,,,never say never,,,,I hope he stay and ruin tweeker and the rest of social media,,,too many imbeciles in charge of your knowledge,,,,,,FJB,,,,,,,
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