Actress Cate Blanchett finds the purchase of the social network Twitter by the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and founder of companies as relevant as PayPal and SpaceX, very “dangerous.”
Once it has been confirmed that Musk will be the largest shareholder of the platform, by acquiring 9.2% of the shares after paying no less than $44,000 million dollars, the news has been celebrated by ardent defenders of freedom of expression without restrictions, such as the journalist Piers Morgan, who has already asked the tycoon to restore the account of the former president Donald Trump has been vetoed.
However, this acquisition has been received with great concern by those Internet users and institutions that have been advocating outright measures against disinformation, hoaxes and other examples of communicative manipulation, since the South African businessman has promised that he will make Twitter a completely free space of censorship, without specifying if this will imply that the ‘fake news’ reign freely.
In this last group is the Oscar-winning Australian interpreter, who has made her rejection of this operation clear in her last interview, in which, however, she did not want to delve too deeply into the matter.
“It is dangerous. That’s all I have to say, it’s very, very dangerous,” Blanchett told Variety magazine.
The actress and activist Jameela Jamil, on the other hand, has gone a step further than her, announcing that she will close her Twitter profile in protest.
“This refuge for ‘freedom of expression’ will receive hate speech, discrimination and misogyny with open arms “, she has warned.