Tesla CEO and one of the world’s richest people, Elon Musk, has expressed his displeasure with the video streaming platform YouTube, which is owned by search giant Google.
The Tesla CEO slammed YouTube’s service by tweeting on micro-blogging site Twitter. Elon Musk also called YouTube a scammer. Musk tweeted, “Youtube seems to be a non stop scam ad.”
In another tweet, Elon Musk Posted a meme making fun of a joke on Youtube allegedly to crack down on deceptive schemes.
Meanwhile, in a statement regarding its policies on scams, Google said, YouTube does not allow spam, scams or other deceptive practices that take advantage of the YouTube community. We also don’t allow content whose main purpose is to trick others into leaving YouTube for another site.
In addition, according to a study omnicoreYouTube, with 122+ million daily active users consuming more than a billion hours of video per day, is one of the most widely used social media platforms (and search engines) in the world (YouTube, 2021). It is also the second most popular search engine, just after Google, with over a billion hours of views every day (YouTube, 2021). In fact, YouTube receives more search queries than other major search engine platforms such as Microsoft Bing, Yahoo, AOL, and Ask, the study said.
In another related development, Elon Musk openly accused Twitter of violating the merger agreement, threatening to shut down the social media company’s $44 billion acquisition for not providing requested data on spam and fake accounts. has given.
Musk demanded that Twitter turn over information about its testing methods to support its claims that bots and fake accounts constitute less than 5% of the platform’s active user base, a figure the company has made boilerplate public. The disclosure has been consistent over the years, however, Monday’s letter claimed that Twitter sought to restrict access to information by narrowly interpreting the merger agreement, such as providing information outside the scope of Twitter’s contractual requirements. Will be done.
In a separate securities filing, Twitter previously disclosed that Musk waived a due diligence clause in the deal that could have made it easier or had him withdraw from the deal; Without it, Musk could face an uphill climb and the prospect of litigation.