Last Updated on 03/09/2024 by Arun jain
Mark Cuban what say Elon Musk likes Do with x will not prevent him from using the Platform.
“This is actually the reason I spend so much time here. I don’t have a problem when people screw with me here. When Elon Musk calls me a racist or whatever he wants to say about me. Don’t worry,” Cuban wrote in one Ex post on Monday.
“That’s what makes this platform fun. I don’t want to be where everyone agrees with me. I don’t learn shit that way,” he added.
The “Shark Tank” star has clashed with Musk over multiple topics over the past year Corporate diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives for US presidential election.
“99 percent of the time, the posts here are useless or hateful or both. But every now and then there is a chance to have a real discussion and learn something valuable,” Cuban wrote Monday.
The feud is part of the reason why he chose X over Meta’s competitive platform, Cuban said. Threads.
“The sound cue is better on Threads. But the breadth of content is much better here. That’s why I’m here,” Cuban said in his post.
Cuban declined to comment when contacted by Business Insider. Musk’s representatives at X did not immediately respond to a request for comment from BI sent outside regular business hours.
This is actually the reason I spend more time here. I don’t have a problem when people screw with me here. Even then @elonmusk Call me a racist or whatever he wants to say about me. don’t care That makes this platform fun. I don’t want where everyone agrees… https://t.co/AlD77jx7M0
— Mark Cuban (@mcuban) September 2, 2024
To be sure, Cuban hasn’t hidden his disdain for how Musk runs X. Musk Acquired Twitter Before October 2022 Changed its name to X In July 2023.
On Sunday, Cuban said in an X post that he doesn’t think X is “A bastion of free speech” that Musk claims it is.
“It’s as free as Elon wants it to be. It can be intimidating. It can change the algorithm. He can suspend him anytime he wants,” Cuban wrote.
“He is the final arbiter of everything here. And the biggest power play is that it makes everyone think their speech is free speech until they decide it’s not, and there’s nothing any of us can do about it.”
Cuba indicted Musk last month Adjusting X’s algorithm to suit his own preferences Meanwhile interview on “The Daily Show”.
“When you write an algorithm — I haven’t written a lot, it’s been a while — but when you write one, you set the parameters of what you want to see,” Cuban told show host Jon Stewart. Stewart said.
“And he’s definitely done it for things that he loves,” Cuban said of Musk, though he didn’t provide evidence that Musk changed the algorithm.
entrepreneur @mcuban And @jonstewart Discuss the global influence of X and the power it has given Elon Musk pic.twitter.com/o33mMxNsPo
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) August 13, 2024
Cuban’s accusations quickly drew the ire of Musk, who said in one Ex post After a few days X’s algorithm was working exactly as it was supposed to.
“Unlike other platforms, our algorithm is open source! And if you interact and argue with “right wing” accounts, which Cuban does a lot, the algorithm will assume that’s what you want to do and give you more of it,” Musk wrote before Another post Cuba is called a giant turd in human form.
Cuban, known for responding to a variety of accounts on X, responded to Musk’s jibe succinctly: a A series of heart-hand emojis.
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