OPINION: Elon Musk scares liberals, Twitter as he pursues free speech
Ellen Pao, in a column for the Washington Post, wrote that the ascension to Twitter’s board of Tesla’s CEO is"highly disconcerting" and amounted to a"slap in the face," arguing among other charges that Musk has misbehaved on the platform and"displays very little empathy."
Why would Pao and like-minded folks be worried? First, because they are terrified that Musk will demand that Twitter lift its ban on Donald Trump, restoring the former president’s most effective bullhorn. With Joe Biden and his Democrat colleagues failing on so many fronts, Trump is a threat. Second, because Musk is an iconoclast willing to challenge liberal orthodoxy; he is also brilliant and can face down his critics with ruthless efficiency. When Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.
Musk disdains those who have attempted to dictate what content is allowed on social media platforms. His disregard for guardrails has in fact gotten him into hot water with the SEC; in 2018, after suggesting that he had the funding lined up to take Tesla private, when he did not, he concluded an agreement with regulators that supposedly put a Twitter-sitter overseeing his posts.
He recently tweeted:"69.42% of statistics are false." Yes,"facts" are not always what they seem and"misinformation" is often in the eye of the beholder. Claims by dozens of former intelligence officials, for instance, that Hunter Biden’s laptop was likely Russian"disinformation" turned out to be … disinformation.
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