Musk says cause of Twitter revenue plummeting is ‘messed up’

Elon Musk says cause of Twitter revenue drop is ‘messed up’ – ‘Destroying free speech!’ (Image: Getty)Following a “massive drop” in Twitter’s revenue, its new CEO Elon Musk took to the site to lay the blame at the feet of “activist groups pressuring advertisers”. The billionaire highlighted that the micro-blogging platform had not changed its policy on content moderation, claiming to have done “everything we could to appease the activists”. This, Mr Musk claimed, was “extremely messed up” and amounted to an attempt to “destroy free speech in America”.But commenters argued that a 500 percent rise in the use of racial slurs on the site since Mr Musk took over, his sharing of a conspiracy theory about the attack on Paul Pelosi, and the reinstatement of controversial figure Kanye West were the real reasons behind advertisers distancing themselves from Twitter.