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DeSantis read his speech launching his campaign in the Sacks-hosted room around 25 minutes after the event was originally scheduled to begin. “I had to switch over to David hosting it because my account was breaking the system,” Musk said.
Republicans have long accused social media sites of unfairly censoring conservative speech, and have supported and admired Musk since he took over. Musk has used various right-wing talking points and leaked internal documents to argue that the company was biased against conservatives. Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson and The Daily Wire have chosen to move their shows over to Twitter in recent weeks, after Carlson was fired from Fox News.
Musk has received support from Republicans who accuse social media companies of wrongly censoring conservative content and users. Throughout his presidency, Trump championed these criticisms and was ultimately banned from mainstream platforms, including Twitter, following the deadly January 6th riot at the US Capitol. When Musk took over, he restored the account after asking his followers for input on the decision. “The people have spoken. Musk said at the time that Trump would be rehired.
The Spaces buckled as DeSantis had a big announcement: Tech Investor David Sacks and the cCensor
The discussion about the announcement will take place on Wednesday at 6PM, and David Sacks, formerPayPal product leader and tech investor, will moderate it. The campaign of Republican candidate for governor Ron DeSantis is expected to release a formal video soon after Memorial Day.
Lindsey Cur nutte, a DeSenatis spokeswoman, confirmed the event in an email. The company replied with its usual “Poop” emoji auto-reply.
Musk has cut back on the personnel who are needed to keep it glitch free. “It’s fitting that his reckless management style would hurt him just as many are tuning in to see him,” said Benavidez with Free Press.
So it’s perhaps not a stunning turn of events that Spaces buckled just as DeSantis was delivering his big news, despite all of Musk’s enthusiasm about the event.
After mass layoffs and hundreds of others quitting, the staff has been cut down to just 10% of what it was. Outages have become more common in recent years. Overall system bugginess has also become the norm for many users.
During the discussion, Sacks claimed the audience on the Spaces was one of the platform’s largest, but Earnest Wilkins, a former Twitter employee who helped produced Spaces, said: “Lol this isn’t in the top 150 spaces by size in the history of the product.”
Many of the audience didn’t jump in after Musk promoted a new Spaces that seemed to be working. The first Spaces appeared to have more than 500,000 attendees at its peak, while the second seemed to hover around 150,000.
At another point, as Sacks attempted to speak, an echo reverberated his words back to him. “It just keeps crashing, huh?” an unidentified speaker was heard saying, as Musk and his team scrambled to fix the problem.
The start of broadcast was delayed for a few minutes and then it cut out twice. Tech investor David Sacks, who was supposed to introduce the event, could be heard saying: “The servers are melting.”
It was supposed to be a historic moment for Twitter: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis would smoothly kick off his presidential candidacy on the social media platform.
Asked about censorship Wednesday, DeSantis said he would soon be signing a “digital bill of rights” that would ban state and government officials from “colluding” with social media companies.
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“Man, I think we melted the internet there,” Sacks said in a separate Space he created with his account after the first one shuttered. “I think it crashed because when you multiply a half million people in a room by an account with over 100 million followers, which is Elon’s account, I think that creates just a scalability level that was unprecedented. But with my meager followership it seems to be working much better.”
As of publication, it’s not entirely clear what went wrong, but Musk (one of the only people to actually speak in the first Space) chalked the problems up to overloaded servers. More than 600,000 users were tuned in a few minutes before the Musk-hosted room ended.
DeSantis eventually did launch his campaign, but the event was mired with problems from the very beginning — and DeSantis didn’t manage to use the initial Space hosted by Musk. When moderator David Sacks, a venture capitalist and former PayPal product lead, first unmuted himself to start the talk, the Space was filled with loud, echoing feedback sounds before quickly going silent. The accounts of DeSantis and Sacks popped in and out of the initial room, muting and unmuting themselves before leaving entirely.