The second richest man on the planet, with an estimated fortune of about US$ 171 billion (R$ 834.7 billion), the founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, made a post on Twitter this Monday (25) in which he questions what might be the influence of the Chinese government on the social network after the sale of the company to its rival, the owner of Tesla and the richest man in the world, Elon Musk.
“Did the Chinese government just gain some leverage in the public square?” Bezos asked in a tweet, referring to Musk’s pledge to turn Twitter into the “public square of the world”.
The CEO of electric car maker Tesla and the new controller of Twitter agreed to buy the social network for about US$ 44 billion (R$ 214.7 billion) this Monday (25). The billionaire’s estimated net worth is approximately US$219 billion.
In the publication this Monday on the social network, Bezos comments on a post made by The New York Times journalist Mike Forsythe, which points to the relationship that would exist between Musk’s electric car manufacturer and the Chinese market.
The American reporter points out that China was Tesla’s second largest market in 2021 and that the country’s battery makers are one of the automaker’s main suppliers. This proximity between Musk and China could change the country’s relationship with Twitter, banned by the government in 2009 in Asian territory.
Experts estimate that a move by Musk to relax Twitter’s content moderation policies could make the social network a favorite of politicians and influencers who live by spreading disinformation and carrying out attacks.
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The founder of Amazon and the owner of Tesla have had a history of teasing and exchanging barbs on social media over the past few years.
In October of last year, Musk responded with the emoji of a silver medal (in reference to second place) to a post made by Bezos on Twitter.
In the publication, Bezos replicated the cover of a 1999 story that discredited the potential of the entrepreneur and the business that Amazon would become years later.
The tease was not the first time the Tesla owner had used emojis to poke the Amazon founder.
Musk has already used a cat emoji to call Bezos a plagiarist (in English, “copycat”) when Amazon entered the internet satellite business and when the company bought the self-driving company Zoox.
In August of last year, Blue Origin, Bezos’s space tourism company, filed a complaint with the US government over a contract signed by NASA with Tesla to build a lunar probe.
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