Elon Musk’s Digs at Twitter, Web 3, and NFTs: A Lookback

In December last year, Musk posted a meme comparing new Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal with Joseph Stalin.

By Reuters | Updated: 5 April 2022 11:57 IST

Elon Musk’s Digs at Twitter, Web 3, and NFTs: A Lookback

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Elon Musk is known for sharing his opinions and memes on his Twitter account

Highlights

Elon Musk wants Twitter to adhere to free speech principles
Musk has previously called himself a "free speech absolutist"
He and Jack Dorsey share skepticism around the metaverse, NFTs and Web3

In the run-up to Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk's public disclosure of a $3 billion (roughly Rs. 22,700 crore) stake in Twitter, the billionaire had criticized the microblogging site for failing to adhere to free speech principles and said he was contemplating building a new social media platform.

The world's richest person in the past months has said he is a free speech absolutist, while being vocal against Web3, a term for a utopian version of the internet that is decentralized and whose commercial backbone is the non-fungible tokens (NFT).

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey and Musk, though active proponents of cryptocurrencies, share skepticism around the metaverse, NFTs and Web3, what some deem to be the evolution of the internet.

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From ridiculing Twitter's new CEO to calling NFT profile pictures "annoying", here's a list of Musk's tweets and comments on Twitter, Web3, NFTs and free speech.

I'm selling this song about NFTs as an NFT pic.twitter.com/B4EZLlesPx
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 15, 2021

pic.twitter.com/OL2hnKngTx
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 1, 2021

Web3 sounds like bs
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 2, 2021

Has anyone seen web3? I can't find it.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 21, 2021

Twitter is spending engineering resources on this bs while crypto scammers are throwing a spambot block party in every thread!?
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 21, 2022

pic.twitter.com/OrLV2c3qy2
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 22, 2022

Starlink has been told by some governments (not Ukraine) to block Russian news sources. We will not do so unless at gunpoint.

Sorry to be a free speech absolutist.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 5, 2022

The choice of which algorithm to use (or not) should be open to everyone https://t.co/o2DkSTWW0O
— jack⚡️ (@jack) March 25, 2022

Twitter algorithm should be open source
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 24, 2022

Is a new platform needed?
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 26, 2022

Oh hi lol
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 4, 2022

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