Stop striking on me, Elon Musk tells United States lawmaker after ‘billionaire with ego issue’ tweet
WASHINGTON: Participating in a witty quibble with US lawmaker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez after she slammed him as a “billionaire with an ego issue”, Tesla CEO Elon Musk told her to stop flirting with him.
Requiring to Twitter on Friday, Ocasio-Cortez said, “Fed up with having to collectively worry about what explosion of hate crimes is happening because some billionaire with an ego issue unilaterally controls a massive communication platform and skews it since Tucker Carlson or Peter Thiel took him to dinner and made him feel special.”
Though the US legislator did not name anyone, Musk should have felt that the dig was directed at him as he responded, “Stop hitting on me, I’m really shy”.
Nevertheless, Ocasio-Cortez did not hold back and responded, “I was speaking about (Mark) Zuckerberg but ok.”
Significantly, Musk is understood for throwing ideas, sometimes light-hearted, on his Twitter timeline. His tweets frequently stimulate disputes on different problems, consisting of complimentary speech that polarises the twitteratis.
He has also been rather singing about his political beliefs as he revealed his repulsion to the Left ideology on Friday.
“The far left hates everyone, themselves included,” he tweeted. However, he included, “however I’m no fan of the far right either. Let’s have less hate and more love.”
Twitter on Monday confirmed the sale of the business to Tesla Chief Elon Musk for USD 44 billion.
“Free speech is the bedrock of an operating democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are disputed,” Musk had stated in a declaration.
“I likewise wish to make Twitter much better than ever by enhancing the product with new features, making the algorithms open source to increase trust, beating the spam bots, and verifying all human beings. Twitter has remarkable capacity – I eagerly anticipate dealing with the business and the community of users to unlock it,” he added even more.
Released at Sun, 01 May 2022 08:22:01 +0000