After voting overwhelmingly for Democrats in the past, Musk said he will vote Republican in the upcoming election.
The CEO and founder of the company made the remark while speaking via video link at a Miami tech conference, where he discussed his views on free speech and other topics.
Musk said at the conference that he was a moderate, neither Republican nor Democrat.
I have voted overwhelmingly for Democrats. He said that he might never have voted for a Republican.
He said that he will now this election. While Musk did not specify if he was referring to the upcoming elections or the presidential election in two years, his comments elicited an enthusiastic response from the audience and panelists.
Musk said that his purchase of Twitter would not be a right-wing takeover as people on the left may fear.
The billionaire wants to make sure that people of all political beliefs feel welcome on a digital town square, one where they can speak freely without fear of being banned or shadow-banned.
Musk defined free speech as being exercised when someone you don't like is saying something you don't like.
Musk said that he gets trashed by the media all the time. I don't care. Do it twice as much as possible.
Even though I have a lot of resources, I do not have the ability to stop the media from trashing me.
There has been a lot of debate about how Musk would handle free speech.
Musk will allow dangerous misinformation to spread on the platform. GOP politicians and pundits have hailed it as a gateway for previously-banned commentators to return to the social networking site.
Some GOP pundits hoped that the purchase of the company would allow it to restore the account of Donald Trump, who was permanently banned in January 2021.
Musk said on May 11 that he would reverse Trump's ban from the platform.
The Miami event was hosted by a show called "All-In", which is led by Chamath Palihapitiya, David Sacks, and David Friedberg.
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