Musk ripped for demanding more ‘positive, beautiful’ content on his social media platform
The IndependentSign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Elon Musk has been ripped for demanding people share more “positive, beautiful or informative” content on social media platform X. “Please post a bit more positive, beautiful or informative content on this platform,” Musk told his 209 million followers on Sunday night. Maybe change up the algorithm first?” open image in gallery Musk posted the demand to his 209 million followers Others highlighted that Musk has recently used the platform to endorse far-right Alternative for Germany and said that “only the AfD can save Germany.” “You’ve just endorsed the German neo-nazi party,” another person said. The pair, who will head up the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency, are strong supporters of the H-1B visa program, which allows U.S. companies to recruit high-skilled workers seeking to live in the U.S. open image in gallery Musk was called out for recently telling one critic to ‘go f*** yourself in the face’ That program and other similar visa programs for farmworkers and immigrant workers in other sectors of the U.S. economy are in the sights of Steve Bannon, Stephen Miller and MAGA world’s immigration hardliners, who are pushing to end or heavily restrict those programs.