POLL: Majority Back Removing False Or Abusive Tweets

Axios reports:

Elon Musk is likely to find out that there’s not a big market for his campaign for more free speech on Twitter, according to an Ipsos poll shared exclusively with Axios.

Most Americans don’t have a problem with Twitter or other social media companies removing posts that include misinformation, promote violence or pose a risk to the public, according to the poll.

73% of all respondents said they support removing posts that probably have false information, with just 20% saying they oppose removing those posts. 83% said they support removing posts that promote violence against particular individuals or groups. 79% said they support removing posts that pose a risk to the public.

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For Twitter to deserve public trust, it must be politically neutral, which effectively means upsetting the far right and the far left equally

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 27, 2022