Elon Musk believes TikTok is \u201cdestroying\u201d civilization elon musk\/tiktokSpaceX founder Elon Musk pondered if TikTok is \u201cdestroying\u201d all of civilization, and maybe even all of social media in general. Elon Musk has gone viral many times for his opinions on various popular social media platforms. Most of his opinions have been about Twitter, the company he\u2019s potentially taking over quite soon, but doesn\u2019t stop just there. He\u2019s also called out YouTube for the \u201cnonstop scam ads\u201d he\u2019s encountered while using the video-sharing website. Now, he\u2019s set his crosshairs on another video app. Elon Musk calls out TikTok The multi-billionaire shared his thoughts on the video app TikTok on June 17. Musk said: \u201cIs TikTok destroying civilization? Some people think so.\u201d The tweet questioning TikTok\u2019s negative effects on society went instantly went viral with over 23k retweets and 250k likes in under one day. The PayPal founder then went on to say \u201cor perhaps social media in general\u201d is the problem, and TikTok is just one of the factors leading the negative impact. This isn\u2019t the first time Elon has criticized social media in general. He even called out Twitter, despite still being deep into negotiations to purchase the company, and questioned if the app was \u201cdying\u201d despite making an insane $44 billion offer to buy the entire company outright. If Musk believes that TikTok is hurting society at large, he could take up Joe Rogan\u2019s original idea and buy it on top of purchasing Twitter, turning him into the Thanos of every social media site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Elon Musk believes TikTok is \u201cdestroying\u201d civilization elon musk\/tiktokSpaceX founder Elon Musk pondered if TikTok is \u201cdestroying\u201d all of civilization, and maybe even all of social media in general. Elon Musk has gone viral many times for his opinions on various popular social media platforms. Most of his opinions have been about Twitter, the company […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}