Tue Nov 29, 2022 – 6:00 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) — Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, who officially took over Twitter late last month in a bid to restore free speech to the platform, confirmed this week that Apple has threatened to pull Twitter from its app store amid Musk’s moves to loosen speech restrictions and restore banned accounts.
On Monday, Musk responded in the affirmative to a tweet asking whether Apple, which produces nearly half of all smartphones used in the U.S., was “threatening Twitter’s presence in the App Store or otherwise making moderation demands?”
Yes
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 28, 2022
In a separate tweet, Musk said that Apple had “threatened to withhold Twitter from its App Store, but won’t tell us why.”
The tweets came shortly after the SpaceX founder and Tesla CEO said Apple had largely ceased running advertisements on Twitter, prompting Musk to ask whether Apple “hate[s] free speech in America?”
Apple has mostly stopped advertising on Twitter. Do they hate free speech in America?
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 28, 2022
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