There’s plenty of opinion regarding Tesla CEO Elon Musk purchasing Twitter for $44-billion. During a segment on “The View,” co-host Sunny Hostin said she dreads Musk’s takeover of the company as it would benefit “predominantly straight white men” who are on the social media platform.
“When Elon Musk says, ‘Wow, this is about free speech,’ it seems to me that this is about free speech of straight white men, so let them have it,” Hostin said. “Let them just go at it.”
Hostin stated that she feels with Musk now in charge, there will be trolls unleashed on the social media platform, which already can be a horrible place before the entrepreneur took over.
“I think Twitter can be a really horrible place, and I think people are excited because he is sort of going to unleash the trolls, right?” Hostin said.
“I think he is saying, ‘You get to say whatever you want. I’m going to take away the guardrails.’ And for me, that is something that is a bit scary.”
Furthermore, “The View” co-host also cited that women could be on the receiving end of this trolling, citing a statistic that 38% of women on Twitter have been “on the receiving end of abuse.”
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