Elon Musk Suggests New Platform Needed In Place of Twitter, Posts Poll – TMZ

Elon Musk seems to be following in Donald Trump‘s footsteps — at least when it comes to social media … because the tech wiz might just be mulling the launch of a new platform.

The Tesla chief just tweeted out some interesting thoughts on what he thinks needs to happen with Twitter itself, writing … “Free speech is essential to a functioning democracy. Do you believe Twitter rigorously adheres to this principle?”

His question was accompanied by a poll, and out of the more than 2 million people that participated … a little over 70% agreed that Twitter was slippin’ on the First Amendment.

EM followed with yet another interesting tweet, adding … “The consequences of this poll will be important. Please vote carefully.” 👀

Finally, Elon showed us his cards (ish) by writing that Twitter has, by and large, become the de facto public town square of modern society … and that if they aren’t living up free speech principles, that’s seriously hurting democracy as a whole.

Then, he poses yet another interesting query … “Is a new platform needed?”

Of course, this might remind folks of Donald Trump’s recent attempt to start his own social media space, which he’s called Truth Social — and which went live recently. While many right-wing Twitter users were happy to announce its launch, as well as their own new pages, the buzz is … Truth Social hasn’t taken off yet quite like some may have hoped.

Trump himself is said to have barely posted on there … and some who’ve hopped on say it’s a bit of a digital ghost town, even among some of its most ardent supporters initially. AKA, no one’s really using it all that much!!!