Mark Cuban says Elon Musk’s ‘biggest power play’ on X is letting users think they have free speech

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Mark Cuban says Elon Musk’s ‘biggest power play’ on X is letting users think they have free speech

X isn’t the “bastion of free speech” everyone thinks it is, says Mark Cuban.

The “Shark Tank” star said the platform is “only as free as Elon wants it to be.

Cuban has frequently accused Musk of running X based on the latter’s own whims.

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doesn’t think social media platform X is as free as

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says it is.

“I know everyone thinks this platform is a bastion of free speech. I see the opposite,” Cuban wrote in an

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on Sunday.

The “Shark Tank” star gave his opinion of Musk’s ownership of X while engaging with professional gambler,

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on the platform.

Musk

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in October 2022, before

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in July 2023.

“Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and

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is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated,” Musk said in

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in April 2022, when the acquisition was announced.

Musk said that he wanted to improve

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by introducing “new features, making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating the spam bots, and authenticating all humans.”

But the X of today, Cuban said, isn’t what Musk initially promised.

“It’s only as free as Elon wants it to be. He can intimidate. He can alter the algorithm. He can suspend anyone he wants at any time,” Cuban wrote on Sunday.

“He is the ultimate arbiter of everything on here. And the biggest power play is him making everyone think their speech is free speech Until he decides it isn’t, and there is nothing any of us can do about it.”

Cuban, however, hasn’t stopped using X.

“Which is why whenever he calls me out or calls me names, I’ll throw something back at him. It’s fun,” Cuban said in his post to Voulgaris.

“And you know I always enjoy and respect our back and forth.”

I don’t think it’s tragic. I like to engage with different people on any number of topics. ****** time when I’m doing cardio or in between emails.

I know everyone thinks this platform is a bastion of free speech. I see the opposite.

It’s only as free as Elon wants it to be.…

— Mark Cuban (@mcuban)

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This isn’t the first time Cuban has accused Musk of running X based on his own whims and fancies.

Last month, Cuban said in an

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on “The Daily Show” that Musk might have adjusted X’s algorithm to suit his own preferences.

“When you write an algorithm — I haven’t written a lot, it’s been a while — but when you write one, you get to set the parameters of what you want to see happen. And he certainly has done that to the things he likes,” Cuban said, without providing evidence of Musk’s manipulation of the algorithm.

Cuban’s accusation spurred a response from Musk, who wrote just days later in an

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that his platform is open-source, unlike other platforms.

Cuban, Musk said, was seeing more content from right-wing accounts because the algorithm was taking into account Cuban’s frequent interactions with them. Cuban has been known to respond to a wide variety of accounts on X.

Musk later followed up with

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that called Cuban a

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.

Cuban only had a brief response for Musk: a series of heart hand emojis.

In June, Cuban told

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that he has no issues with Musk despite their heated exchanges on X.

Besides X, the pair have gone head-to-head on topics like

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and the

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this year.

“I have fun sparring with Elon. He likes to troll and so do I,” Cuban said in June.

Representatives for Musk at X and Cuban didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment from *** sent outside regular business hours.

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