{"id":137396,"date":"2022-03-27T00:22:20","date_gmt":"2022-03-27T07:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/elon-musk-hints-he-might-launch-his-own-social-media-platform"},"modified":"2022-03-27T00:22:20","modified_gmt":"2022-03-27T07:22:20","slug":"elon-musk-hints-he-might-launch-his-own-social-media-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/elon-musk-hints-he-might-launch-his-own-social-media-platform","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk hints he might launch his own social media platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-hints-he-might-launch-his-own-social-media-platform.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/tesla\/index.html\" id=\"mol-74D84810-ad46-11ec-a567-0b14375881ea\">Tesla<\/a> CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/elon-musk\/index.html\" id=\"mol-74bb7140-ad46-11ec-a567-0b14375881ea\">Elon Musk<\/a> polled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/twitter\/index.html\" id=\"mol-74D8bd40-ad46-11ec-a567-0b14375881ea\">Twitter<\/a> on Saturday, asking whether a new social media platform should be created to challenge Twitter and sparking speculation that the billionaire might be the one to do so.<\/p>\n<p>In a series of tweets on Friday, the Space X founder asked if the time has come for a new platform to replace Twitter, and whether users thought the company \u2018adhered to free speech principles.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>He said that, because Twitter serves as \u2018the de factor public town square,\u2019 a failure to promote free speech on the app would undermine democracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla CEO Elon Musk polled Twitter on Saturday, asking whether a new social media platform should be created to challenge Twitter and sparking speculation that the billionaire might be the one to do so. In a series of tweets on Friday, the Space X founder asked if the time has come for a new platform [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}