Apple is threatening to pull Twitter from the App Store, but they won’t tell me why. In a series of tweets on Monday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk accused Apple of undermining the possibility that Twitter was a target. “I suspect this is because they don’t want people to be able to track down the real perpetrators,” he tweeted. ..
In a series of tweets, Tesla CEO Elon Musk claimed that Apple had almost stopped advertising on Twitter. “I hate free speech in America,” he said, apparently referring to his oft-expressed desire to reinforce his idea of free speech on platforms. Tim Cook?” Musk added in a following tweet. He also criticized Apple’s scale, claiming it engages in “censorship” and pointing to the 30% transaction fee Apple charges large app developers to list on the App Store. ..
Twitter has a tenuous relationship with Apple, which acts as a major mobile application gatekeeper alongside Google. Tesla CEO says he considered selling the company to his Apple long before the Twitter acquisition, when the automaker was in trouble, but Cook declined to elaborate. Cook said that he would not want to hurt Twitter’s business by taking down its App Store or Google’s App Store.
Apple has not yet responded to a request for comment on the tweet by Tesla CEO Elon Musk. The company has previously indicated its intention to remove apps from the App Store due to concerns about its ability to moderate harmful content or whether it is trying to avoid Apple’s cutbacks in receiving in-app purchases and subscriptions.
In January 2021, Apple removed Parler, an app popular with conservatives including some members of the far right, from the United States Capitol citing concerns about the platform’s ability to detect hate speech and moderate incitement. It was removed from the app store after being attacked. Parler is back on Apple’s App Store three months after updating its content management procedures. ..
Apple has guidelines for how an app must meet to be accepted into the App Store. The app must not contain hate speech, pornography, terrorism, or any other offensive content.
