Elon Musk on Monday recommended that voters pick Republican candidates for the U.S. Congress in Tuesday's midterm election.
The new Twitter CEO tweeted the recommendation a day after he said that he wanted the social media platform to be an accurate source of information about the world, sparking debate about how it would achieve that and who determines what is accurate.
'To independent-minded voters: Shared power curbs the worst excesses of both parties, therefore I recommend voting for a Republican Congress, given that the presidency is Democratic,' Musk said on Twitter.
Since Musk's takeover of Twitter, civil rights groups have criticized the Tesla CEO's stance on content moderation over his absolutist free speech stance, which they expect to increase the volume of misinformation and hate speech on the platform.
