Since the news of Tesla CEO Musk's $44 billion acquisition of social media company Twitter, what changes he will bring to Twitter have become a topic of focus for American netizens, media and celebrities. However, some people who earn attention by rubbing China's heat on the Us Internet have forcibly pulled this matter, which has nothing to do with China, and forcibly involved China.
As shown in the figure below, Mike Forsythe, a reporter for the New York Times who reported on The China topic, said in a post on the 26th that China is now the second largest market for Tesla motors in the world, and China's car battery companies are the most important suppliers of Tesla electric vehicles, so after Musk buys Twitter, China may have a "chip" in how Twitter works.
Subsequently, his post and opinion were further forwarded and spread by Bezos, the owner of Amazon in the United States and another super-rich man in the United States. Bezos also said Fu had raised an "interesting question."
As a result, with the help of Bezos, many media in the United States have also begun to follow up and hype this matter. Among them, the Capitol Hill newspaper typed a headline in a report on the matter: Bezos questioned the influence of China after Twitter was acquired by Musk.
However, Bezos later posted a "question and answer" that he did not think That China would have an impact on Twitter after being acquired by Musk, and said that Musk's acquisition of Twitter would only make Tesla's business in China "complicated", but it would not affect the operation of Twitter itself. He also said he thinks Musk can handle these issues well.
But in Geng Zhige's view, this topic of "China or will interfere in the operation of Musk after the acquisition of Twitter" provoked by New York Times reporter Fu Caide and hyped by Bezos has quite low-level factual and logical loopholes.
First, Musk's acquisition of Twitter was made by him using his personal assets, not through Tesla. It is very far-fetched to use Tesla's business in China to "take the rhythm" of Musk's personal acquisition of Twitter.
Secondly, if we follow the argument of Fu Caide and others that "China is Tesla's second largest market, so China may affect Musk personally", then the United States, as Tesla's largest market, is not more able to interfere in Twitter's operations, and even decide to let Twitter block those accounts that they don't like? Moreover, before Musk bought Twitter, Twitter had indeed been "blocking" Chinese foreign agencies many times in accordance with the requirements of the United States, preventing China from clarifying the rumors spread by the United States about attacking China's Xinjiang. Why didn't I see Fu Caide speak at that time —oh yes, this is because the rumors that smeared China's Xinjiang were concocted by the American media themselves!
In fact, after Musk's acquisition of Twitter, the vast majority of American netizens are really concerned about or even worried about the trend that these online public opinion platforms in the United States are constantly being acquired and controlled by powerful American tycoons.
For example, among the 400 super-rich people rated by Forbes magazine in 2021, The amazon boss Bezos, who ranks first, owns the mainstream media "Washington Post" in the United States, the second-ranked Musk now has Twitter, the third-ranked Zuckerberg is the boss of Facebook, the fourth is Bill Gates, who founded Microsoft in the United States and also has a strong voice in public opinion, and the fifth and sixth are Peggy and Brin, the founders of Google, respectively. The 10th place is Bloomberg, who owns the big American media Bloomberg and was the mayor of New York...
The AcLU, which aims to defend the individual rights and freedoms of U.S. citizens, has also expressed concern about Musk's acquisition of Twitter, saying that the right of Americans to express their views online has been held by a small number of private companies such as Twitter, and that when this right is now controlled by a rich man like Musk, people should be worried — even if Musk himself is a member of the American Civil Liberties Union.
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