On Thursday, Musk dared Alexandria to ask her followers if they distrust billionaires or politicians more.
Who do you trust more? The real question was presented by him, with a poll that offered politicians and billionaires as the only two options.
—Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 26, 2022
I dare you to run the same poll with your followers. At press time, he had not responded.
In less than two hours, Musk's poll received more than 970,000 votes, with many saying they trusted politicians less.
The poll had an effect on Musk's followers, as one user pointed out. At the same time, she would be more skeptical of tycoons.
The user commented that he thought the result would be the opposite given the mindset of those likely to be following her.
Musk has drawn criticism from some progressives for his plans to loosen the moderation of the content on his company. Critics fear that his plans will make the site worse.
The latest in a series of disagreements between Musk and Ocasio-Cortez was posted on Friday.
She said she would swap her car for one made by unionized workers.
Musk is against unions. The UAW was invited to hold a union vote at the company by the CEO, but he said it would fail.
Tired of having to collectively stress about what explosion of hate crimes is happening, she lashed out at tech billionaires for their outsized control over social media platforms.
When Musk responded with "Stop hitting on me, I'm really shy", she clarified that she was referring to Meta's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg.
Like I said, ego problems.
—Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) April 30, 2022
In recent weeks, Musk revealed that he would vote Republican in the next election because he disagreed with Democrats on free speech. Musk didn't say if he was talking about the elections later this year or the presidential election in four years.
Insider did not get a response from Musk and Ocasio-Cortez.
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