A day after making an offer to buy 100% of Twitter, Elon Musk spoke at the TED 2022 conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, and explained what changes he would like to implement on the social media platform if he takes over the company. Among the various suggestions, Elon Musk told curator Chris Anderson that he would consider modifying the platform’s approach to controversial and problematic content, including tweets by crypto scam bots. Musk said, “A top priority I would have is eliminating the spam and scam bots and the bot armies that are on Twitter,” . Musk explained that scam bots are extremely rampant on the microblogging site, and used an interesting analogy to prove his point. “They make the product much worse. If I had a Dogecoin for every crypto scam I saw, we’d have 100 billion Dogecoin.” How would Elon Musk change Twitter if he were to buy it? First, he’d make it open source. Watch @ElonMusk’s wide ranging live #TED2022 interview with @TEDChris on @YouTube here: https://t.co/dFFUxNqLZe pic.twitter.com/Okm3y5HpEy — TED Talks (@TEDTalks) April 14, 2022 Twitter Under Musk’s Leadership Musk also laid out what other changes he would like to make to improve the Twitter user experience, including open-sourcing the social media algorithm and making it more transparent. “One of the things that I believe Twitter should do is open-source the algorithm. Any changes to people’s tweets if they’re emphasised or de-emphasised ...
