Elon Musk is not estranged from taking digs and stirring controversies on social media. At any point, he does not shy away from expressing every first thought he has in his mind, and the business magnate also takes pleasure in taking digs at his contemporaries and competition. Recently, he criticized the user-generated content app, YouTube for its advertisements calling them “scam ads.”
In a recent bout of sharing the first thought in mind, Musk had pondered whether social media is destroying human civilization. However, he has specifically attacked a particular platform for contributing to doing so. It is none other than the video-making Chinese app TikTok!
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“Is TikTok Destroying Civilization?”: Elon Musk Takes A Dig At The Leading Video-Making App
On Saturday, the Tesla owner put out a Tweet writing, “Is TikTok destroying civilization? Some people think so.” The thread continued, “Or perhaps social media in general.” This sparked an inundation of observations, criticism, and humor on Twitter. Ironically, Twitter’s to-be owner thinks that social media is hampering the quality of human civilization today.
Is TikTok destroying civilization? Some people think so.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 18, 2022
This tweet comes after Elon Musk’s address to Twitter employees on Thursday. He told the employees that he wants to execute the same strategy as WeChat, a messaging app, and TikTok to gain 1 billion users. During the conference, he explained how Twitter can make the app user-friendly and attract engagement by making sure “people are very entertained and informed.” He referred to Wechat, an all-encompassing app.
Musk said, “There’s no Wechat equivalent outside of China. You basically live on Wechat in China. If we recreate that with Twitter, we’ll be a great success.” The SpaceX CEO then continued praising TikTok for its algorithm. While singing its praise, he said, “we could hone Twitter, in the same way, to be interesting.”
Followers Of Musk Share Their Thoughts On The Matter
Yes! Quick, buy TikTok and delete it to save humanity sir!!!
— CryptoWhale (@CryptoWhale) June 18, 2022
Yes. Mainly through horoscope and other ignorant pseudocience.
— Dalas Review (@DalasReview) June 18, 2022
Dogecoin is our last hope to save civilization!
— Matt Wallace (@MattWallace888) June 18, 2022
hmm, tiktok is kinda just like watching dumber, shorter, more addicting tv
social media in general tho, i think is an extension of chat rooms or message boards, tends to make people act pretty stupid 🤣
— Shibetoshi Nakamoto (@BillyM2k) June 18, 2022
TikTok is by far the WORST social media platform.
They ban things that can’t possibly breach their terms of service.
But leave the vilest stuff up.
— Avi Yemini (@OzraeliAvi) June 18, 2022
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