Twitter’s new proprietor Elon Musk has now posted what appears to be a clarification hours after he recommended voting for the Republicans within the United States midterm elections on Tuesday to counterbalance President Joe Biden’s Democrats. “To be clear, my historical party affiliation has been Independent, with an actual voting history of entirely Democrat until this year,” Musk mentioned in a tweet to his greater than 128 million followers. “And I’m open to the idea of voting Democrat again in the future,” he added; Americans will end voting in midterm elections on Tuesday.

Hours earlier than this, the tech billionaire “recommended voting for a Republican Congress, given that the Presidency is Democratic.” The put up was nonetheless pinned on his Twitter account on the time this report was revealed. This has been the primary time a significant social media CEO explicitly took a aspect. In April, Musk mentioned he believes that for Twitter “to deserve public trust, it must be politically neutral.” Musk has been essential of the Biden administration and Democrats for his or her proposals to tax billionaires and provides extra tax incentives to union-made electrical automobiles, information company Reuters reported citing previous tweets and interviews.

The world’s richest individual and CEO of Tesla took over Twitter in a $44 billion deal final month and has engaged in drastic measures together with sacking half the workers and a plan to cost for blue verify verification marks. Ever because the acquisition, he has additionally been placing out memes and jokes, which have led many individuals to additional criticise him as 1000’s misplaced their jobs.

In one among his newest posts, he wrote: “Twitter usage is at an all-time high lol. (sic)”. Without delving deeper into what he meant, he additional wrote: “I just hope the servers don’t melt!”

With inputs from Reuters