UN chief on Elon Musk's Twitter poll: watch what Antonio Guterres said on social media giant's future

Against the backdrop of Elon Musk's Twitter poll on who should manage the social media company, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres weighed in on the matter.

Guterres on 19 December 2022 said that he has "no personal feelings" about who manages Twitter, but he is "very interested" in how the platform is managed.

The UN Secretary General said that his recommendation to Twitter's owner is "to make sure that the freedom of expression, especially of journalists, is respected and that hate speech, neo Nazism, white supremacism, and other forms of extremism, do not find their way through these social platforms".

Twitter users voted on 19 December for Musk to quit as head of the social media giant in a poll the technology tycoon ran on his future and promised to abide by its results.

A total of 57.5 per cent of people voted "yes" after the 51-year-old billionaire asked his 122 million followers whether he should stand down. Over 17 million votes were cast in the poll that began on Sunday evening and ended early Monday morning with most respondents voting in the affirmative, CNN reported.

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Musk tweeted on Sunday, "Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll." "As the saying goes, be careful what you wish, as you might get it," he added in a later tweet.

(With agency inputs)