Twitter CEO Elon Musk said Friday that he will start to create smartphones if Apple and Google remove Twitter from their app stores, a move that would be highly damaging to the social media company.

Musk’s remarks came in response to a tweet from political commentator Liz Wheeler, who wrote: “If Apple & Google boot Twitter from their app stores, @elonmusk should produce his own smartphone.”

“Half the country would happily ditch the biased, snooping iPhone & Android,” she said. “The man builds rockets to Mars, a silly little smartphone should be easy, right?”

Musk responded, “I certainly hope it does not come to that, but, yes, if there is no other choice, I will make an alternative phone.”

I certainly hope it does not come to that, but, yes, if there is no other choice, I will make an alternative phone

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 25, 2022

The statement from Musk comes amid pressure from advertisers and left-wing activists to police content that they deem to be “hate speech.”

Musk responded to the pressure campaign this week by saying that the company had cracked down on hate speech.

“Hate speech impressions down by 1/3 from pre-spike levels,” Musk tweeted. “Congrats to Twitter team!”

“I have half a mind to wag my finger at the 1500 accounts that caused the spike, but I shall forebear,” Musk continued. “Reducing the max allowed tweets/day to a number below what a speed typist on meth could do was helpful.”

Musk then responded to a question from DailyWire+ host Jordan Peterson about how he defines hate speech.

“This is simply based on the same list of terms that Twitter has used for some time, so ceteris paribus,” Musk responded.

This is simply based on the same list of terms that Twitter has used for some time, so ceteris paribus

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 25, 2022

Musk also announced on Thursday that he was going to grant a mass amnesty to accounts that had been previously banned on the platform.

Musk made the decision in response to the final results of a poll he tweeted Wednesday. The platform will begin unbanning accounts en masse, except for those who broke the law or engaged in excessive spam, next week, he tweeted in response to the results.

More than three million users voted in the poll, and the vote was overwhelmingly in favor of amnesty; nearly three-quarters of voters, 72.4%, voted “yes,” while just 27.6% voted “no.”

“The people have spoken,” Musk wrote after the poll concluded. “Amnesty begins next week. Vox Populi, Vox Dei.”

Before the poll ended, Musk seemed to indicate that in effect, the platform would significantly curtail content moderation to target illegal content and increase transparency.

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In the spirit of Thanksgiving, a sheriff in Kansas pardoned a turkey who broke into a family home.

The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office pardoned the wild turkey, given the name “Tom,” on Facebook Wednesday, after he broke into the home on November 10. The office also posted body cam footage of two sheriff’s deputies as they caught the fowl in a bedroom, removed it from the home, then released it back into the wild.

“In the spirit of Thanksgiving, Sheriff [Jay] Armbrister has pardoned a Douglas County turkey from any criminal damage charges,” DCSO wrote on Facebook. “Tom the Turkey broke through a window and into a Douglas County resident’s home on Nov. 10. Thanks to the quick thinking and good work of Master Deputy Dunkle and Deputy Bonner, they were able to safely remove the bird from inside the home and set him free… the Sheriff’s Office is thankful for the work of our deputies and their efforts to go above and beyond for the community. #HappyThanksgiving.”

The body cam video begins with a brief introductory text. “The call you are about to witness is true,” it reads. “The names of turkeys involved have been changed to protect the innocent. Call him Tom.” In the video, the two deputies can be seen cornering the turkey in a bedroom. “Well, let’s just see what we got,” one of the deputies says. “He’s a little fired up, too.” A graphic on the screen informs viewers that the turkey broke into the home through a window. “Hey fella,” the deputy says. “What you doin’, old man, huh? What you doin’ up here?”

“Yeah, this is my first time with a turkey,” the deputy tells the concerned homeowner.

“He’s staring at me,” says the other deputy. “I don’t like this.”

“Oh, he ain’t gonna hurt you too bad,” the first deputy responds.

The two deputies stretch out a blanket; one of the deputies throws it over the bird and grabs it. But the turkey escapes his grasp and tries to fly out another window in the room. The deputy then hands the blanket to his partner, who wrangles it and carries it out. “You’ve got enough feathers in here for a feather duster, ma’am,” the deputy carrying the turkey jokes to the homeowner.

“I must’ve taken all the fight out of him,” his partner jokes as the deputy carries the turkey downstairs and out of the house. The deputy then lets the turkey out of the blanket, and the bird runs into the woods nearby. The homeowner then thanks the two deputies profusely.

Earlier this week, President Joe Biden gave pardons to two turkeys from being stuffed at family tables for Thanksgiving, a tradition that dates back to the 19th century. According to the White House Historical Association, President Abraham Lincoln was the first to issue clemency for a turkey in 1863. Turkeys were sent to the White House as gifts from the 1870s onward. The tradition itself stemmed from an offhand remark made by President John F. Kennedy in 1963; The Washington Post reported Kennedy’s comment, “let’s keep him going,” as both a “pardon” and a “reprieve.” The practice of sending the turkey to a farm began under Richard Nixon, and the formality of the pardon started under George H.W. Bush.