The media has been having a field day since Elon Musk’s poll asking users if he should step down as the head of Twitter, which now shows the votes favor him leaving.
But questions have arisen as to why Musk would conduct such a poll this early into his role as CEO of the platform. Clearly, it does not make sense Musk would put himself in such a vulnerable position, especially as he’s already made himself a ‘deep state’ enemy number one in the wake of the explosive Twitter files releases.
Currently, various media headlines are attempting to link the poll with Twitter’s supposed backlash over the platform’s new policies.
The New York Times headline, titled, ‘The Last Straw’: Twitter Users Rage Over Elon Musk’s Latest Actions,’ tried to suggest Musk has been forced into doing the poll because of backlash from reporters.
Meanwhile, The Daily Mail’s headline went a step further, reading, ‘Time to pack up your desk, Elon! Musk could quit as head of Twitter after more than half of 17 million users in HIS poll say they DO want him to step down.’
But despite the poll results, many comments voiced support for Musk, with some begging him not to leave.
Kim Dotcom pointed out why he thought the poll was unwise:
“Hey @elonmusk, it’s unwise to run a poll like this when you are now deep state enemy #1. They have the biggest bot army on Twitter. They have 100k ‘analysts’ with 30-40 accounts all voting against you. Let’s clean up and then run this poll again. The majority has faith in you,” he wrote.
Kim Dotcom then theorized Musk’s poll could be “a honeypot to catch all the deep state bots:”
“I’m hoping that Elon did this poll as a honeypot to catch all the deep state bots. The dataset for this poll will contain most of them. Some good data-mining and he could kill them all in one go,” he wrote.
Another Twitter user voiced the same suspicions:
“Is this a honey pot for bot makers?” Twitter user Andre_van_Delft wrote.
The Hodge twins followed up with the same ‘bot’ theory:
“This poll will def catch the bots,” they wrote.
