*Elon Musk will soon allow media publishers on Twitter to charge users to read articles on the platform.
Users will be able to access articles for a one-time fee instead of paying a monthly subscription fee.
“Rolling out next month, this platform will allow media publishers to charge users on a per article basis with one click,” Musk tweeted on April 29. “This enables users who would not sign up for a monthly subscription to pay a higher per article price for when they want to read an occasional article.”
As Variety reports, there are still a number of unknowns about Twitter’s upcoming feature, including the percentage of each transaction that Twitter will take in commission.
Rolling out next month, this platform will allow media publishers to charge users on a per article basis with one click.
This enables users who would not sign up for a monthly subscription to pay a higher per article price for when they want to read an occasional article.…
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 29, 2023
In related news, Musk chopped it up with Bill Maher on “Real Time” Friday and spoke about his acquisition of Twitter, free speech, and what he calls the “woke mind virus.”
“I think we need to be very cautious about anything that is anti-meritocratic and anything that results in the suppression of free speech,” Musk said to Maher, Variety reports. “So those are two of the aspects of the ‘woke mind virus’ that I think are very dangerous…. You can’t question things, even the questioning is bad. Almost synonymous would be cancel culture.”
“My concern with Twitter was that it is somewhat of the digital town square and it’s important that there be both the reality and perception of trust for a wide range of viewpoints,” he said.
Musk, who purchased Twitter last year, also touched on the “indoctrination that’s happening in schools and universities.”
“The experience that we had in high school and college is not the experience that kids today are having, and hasn’t been for 10 years, maybe 20 years… Parents are generally not aware of what their kids are being taught, or what they’re not being taught,” Musk said, Variety reports. “Let me give you an example that a friend of mine told me. His daughters go to high school in the Bay Area and he was asking them, ‘Who are the first few presidents of the United States.’ They could name Washington, so he said, ‘What do you know about him?’ ‘That he was a slaveowner.’ ‘What else?’ ‘Nothing.’ Like okay, maybe you should know more than that. Slavery is obviously a horrific institution, but we should still know more about George Washington than that.”
Musk also explained why he had to “take drastic action” after buying the social media platform in order for Twitter to avoid bankruptcy.
“I think things are reasonably stabilized right now. It was on the fast-track to bankruptcy after acquisition so I had to take drastic action. There was no choice,” Musk said.
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