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UPDATE, Nov. 30, 2022, 5:17PM CST: This report has been updated with additional comments from Musk clarifying the latest on Twitter’s relationship with Apple.
DUVAL COUNTY, Florida (LifeSiteNews) – Florida governor and potential presidential candidate Ron DeSantis blasted tech giant Apple on Tuesday for allegedly discriminating against the newly-more-open social network Twitter, suggesting that government intervention may be warranted.
The advertising agency representing Apple and other major corporations recently recommended “pausing” advertising on Twitter over the pro-free-speech stance of new owner Elon Musk, who said Monday that the company has since “mostly stopped advertising on Twitter” and “has also threatened to withhold Twitter from its AppStore, but won’t tell us why.”
On Wednesday evening, Musk said he met with Apple CEO Tim Cook and “resolved the misunderstanding about Twitter potentially being removed from the App Store. Tim was clear that Apple never considered doing so.”
Commenting on the matter during a press conference (prior to Musk’s update), DeSantis said that carrying out the threat “would be a huge, huge mistake” on Apple’s part, as well as a “really raw exercise of
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