CNN’s O’Sullivan on Apple Threatening To Pull Twitter from Its App Store: They ‘Have a Quality Control in Their App Store’

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O'SULLIVAN: "Yeah. So, Apple basically have a quality control in their app store, so before anything can go on your phone, they will go through apps to make sure, one, there’s not viruses or kind of spyware on it that could end up spying on you, but also they have quality controls in place when it comes to hate speech and also Covid misinformation. We saw last year the right-wing social media platform Parler was kicked off the Apple app store temporarily, for a few months, until it got its hate speech policies in place in a way that Apple were happy enough with. Obviously, what we’re seeing with Elon Musk now is that he is tearing back the rule book on Twitter, and I think what we’re seeing is that potentially Apple might have some problems with it. Of course, we haven’t heard officially from Apple just yet. Speaking of those policies, we learned overnight, I want to show you this from the Twitter website, Twitter had a misinformation policy against Covid misinformation in place since 2020. That is no more, they have ripped that up. As part of that policy, 11,000 accounts were suspended, were banned, we may see many of those accounts coming back. That is something that Musk has promised. He said accounts that were banned would be coming back. So, a lot happening at the platform right now. People knew that it was going to be crazy under Elon Musk, it certainly is a roller coaster. And later this evening, we’re at a nice foundation event here in Florida, on that stage a little later tonight, a very senior Twitter employee, who was involved in implementing a lot of these policies, who worked with Musk but quit a few weeks ago, will be speaking out for the first time tonight."