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Elon Musk is hitting the mainstream media hard after, he believes, they are ignoring the story of how Twitter suppressed the Hunter Biden laptop.
The Twitter Files, as Musk has called them, showed that when he was a candidate for president, Joe Biden’s team would routinely ask Twitter to review tweets and the Twitter team would more often than not, remove them.
Outkick.com founder Clay Travis noticed on Saturday that The New York Times app was devoid of stories about the blockbuster scandal.
“There is not one single article about @elonmusk or the @twitter email release last night on @nytimes app this morning,” he said and the tweet caught Musk’s attention.
“That is because The New York Times has become, for all intents and purposes, an unregistered lobbying firm for far left politicians,” he said.
That is because The New York Times has become, for all intents and purposes, an unregistered lobbying firm for far left politicians
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 3, 2022
But it was worse than just one newspaper ignoring the story. It was ignored by all of the major networks, Fox News reported.
“Despite the significance of this liberal bias in Twitter censorship being exposed, mainstream media outlets did not acknowledge the story. According to the Media Research Center’s Alex Christy, all three major news networks – ABC, CBS, and NBC – ignored the story Friday evening,” it said.
Musk wants everyone to know that his mental health is sound and he is not suicidal and he may have good reason to want that known.
As Musk had a live Q&A session on Saturday, after revealing the depths of how the Hunter Biden laptop story got squashed on Twitter and revealing how deep people in government were with Twitter, he believed that his mental status was pertinent information, The Epoch Times reported.
“I do not have any suicidal thoughts … If I commit suicide, it’s not real!” he said to around 100,000 listeners.
“Musk joked that given the revelations in the files and his expressed plans to ensure that political powers have no undisclosed influence at the company going forward, powerful figures and institutions may want him out of the way, The Times said.
“Twitter is the one company that’s no longer colluding and is no longer just going with this NPC group think, I should probably increase my security or something,” the CEO said.
He also commented on the media’s portrayal of Twitter as becoming a place for right wingers to create a “hellscape” and said it was not true.
“And in fact there are far fewer bots, far fewer trolls and it’s actually, I think, way more fun and interesting. And we’re seeing that in the user minutes and in the daily average users,” he said.
And he said that before he became CEO Twitter was not unbiased when it came to rule enforcement.He said there was “a very different standard applied to Republican candidates in the U.S. versus a Democrat candidates.”
“I’m not saying this is definitely the case. There appears to have been a double standard where Democrats were not censored and left causes were not censored but right causes and Republicans were,” the CEO said.
“I think this is frankly obvious to anyone who uses Twitter without any extra exposure of Twitter files. It was not even-handed,” he said.
The Tesla, Starlink and Space X CEO said that “frankly the behavior that is to be expected from an organization that is that is based in San Francisco, which is far left.”
“So from their standpoint, it wouldn’t seem like that they’re being unfair,” he said. “It’s simply how they see the world.”
On Friday night the Twitter CEO unveiled, what he called, the “Hunter Biden story suppression” files and it was a doozy.
He handed the task of unveiling the details of the scandal to independent journalist, and former liberal hero, Matt Taibbi.
“What you’re about to read is the first installment in a series, based upon thousands of internal documents obtained by sources at Twitter,” the journalist said.
“The ‘Twitter Files’ tell an incredible story from inside one of the world’s largest and most influential social media platforms. It is a Frankensteinian tale of a human-built mechanism grown out the control of its designer,” he said before unleashing a torrent of information.
And what is more interesting is the CEO said more would be unveiled on Saturday.
“In an early conception, Twitter more than lived up to its mission statement, giving people “the power to create and share ideas and information instantly, without barriers.”
“As time progressed, however, the company was slowly forced to add those barriers. Some of the first tools for controlling speech were designed to combat the likes of spam and financial fraudsters.
“Slowly, over time, Twitter staff and executives began to find more and more uses for these tools.
“Outsiders began petitioning the company to manipulate speech as well: first a little, then more often, then constantly.
“By 2020, requests from connected actors to delete tweets were routine. One executive would write to another:
“More to review from the Biden team.” The reply would come back: “Handled.”
