The billionaire says he will change the policy on
Twitter votes after users say he should step
down
Let's unpack this and go to Bremen in Germany and speak to Dennis Kenji koepka. He's a professor of it Security Law at HSBC City, University of applied sciences. Dennis, thanks so much for joining us here on this news hour. And now, we haven't actually had a response from Elon Musk as to whether or not he's going to step down. The only thing is really said and I'm going to ask our team to just bring this tweet up. It's something that he replied to saying it was interesting and it was somebody asking about whether or not the Bots were involved in the poll, but surely, someone like Elon Musk who is head of a major social media company must know that running such a poll, would be gay mobile. So to speak by many people on the platform. And at the moment, it is definitely not clear.
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It is certain that Bots may also have participated here and which also in my opinion showed that Elon Musk does not have does not take the survey very seriously, and he's even recently taken up a suggestion. Only from a user to make participation service available, only to premium users in the future. And this, in my opinion would be the exact opposite of what Elon Musk actually intended was a survey. Do you think he's actually going to step down? I don't think it's unlikely. Of course, it's impossible to say, for sure, but even after it on must resignation, nothing is likely to change significantly since you still the owner of the company and definitely conceivable would be a media effective public regulate resignation. And to show that he has understood the users, and the deployment of a, possibly of a new CEO. Who would then, however, be controlled by Elon Musk in the background. Dennis, it was just today. That Bill Gates says, Twitter is quote stirring up a digital polarization. What do you make of that? Comment from the Microsoft founder, Bill Gates, and makes it quite clear that dependence or social network does not bode. Well and we have all relied on Twitter for too long. And now we have to recognize that the platform is no longer working as it should of course this creates insecurity among the users and thus leads also to polarization of the of the whole community on Twitter. Well, moskva saying that Twitter is not profitable. So it's interesting that he bought it in the first place but with the Me like Twitter. How do you then make it profitable? I mean, what are what are other social media heads learning from the whole Saga playing out on Twitter? You have a majority of social networks, generate their income from advertising by companies and this has always been the successful model in the recent years. And also we have seen that advertising revenues are currently declining. The business models of many US corporations and particular are still profitable. However advertising revenues, also required trustworthiness on the part of the social network and with that a certain level of content control is needed and this is precisely what Twitter has restricted in the recent months. Dennis can G keep going. Appreciate you talking to us live there from Bremen in Germany.
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