Twitter’s CEO seemed to endorse Musk’s query. Parag Agrawal retweeted Musk’s poll Monday, “The consequences of this poll will be important. Please vote carefully.”
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The head of SpaceX, who is also the richest man in the world, bought a 9.2% stake in Twitter last month. With the purchase, he became Twitter’s largest shareholder, and he has been appointed to the company’s board through 2024, Twitter announced Tuesday. He has promised “significant” changes to the social network.
Critics have pointed to the possibility of users injecting already-viral tweets with untrue information or unsavory language as an argument against the creation of an edit button. Facebook has long allowed users to edit posts, and Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth responded to the possibility of changed meanings in a tweet Tuesday: “We solved this on Facebook a long time ago. You just include an indicator that it has been edited along with a change log. If you are really worried about embeds they can point to a specific revision in that history but with a link to the latest edit. Not a real issue.” Meta has, however, grappled with the rampant proliferation of disinformation on its social networks.
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