- On Wednesday Gates spoke at The Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council Summit and was asked about Musk’s potential impact on Twitter following his acquisition
- Gates said that while Musk has a good track record, he could make the misinformation on the app worse
- ‘I have nothing but positive things to say about Elon, if he makes Twitter worse, I’ll speak out about that, but I wouldn’t assume that’s what’s going to happen’
- Gates also refused to say whether or not he personally shorted Tesla
- ‘It’s possible the stock went down and whoever shorted the stock made money, I don’t know’
‘You know, what’s his goal?’ Gates asked. ‘When he talks about the openness, how does he feel about something such as “vaccines kill people” or that “Bill Gates is tracking people” is that one of the things he feels should be spread? so It’s not totally clear what he is going to do.’
‘Are his goals for what it ends up being, does it match this idea of less extreme falsehoods spreading so quickly, weird conspiracy theories, does he share that goal or not?’ Gates pondered.
Gates also added that he has not taken Musk’s recent tweets about him personally.
Last month Musk dissed Gates’ gut on Twitter posting a photo of the Microsoft mogul alongside Apple’s controversial pregnant man emoji ‘in case you need to kill a boner.’