Elon Musk has taken a stand against journalists who have expressed disapproval of Matt Taibbi’s decision to publicise documents concerning Twitter’s censorship of the controversy involving Hunter Biden’s laptop.
Elon Musk Bashes Liberal Media For Suppressing The Hunter Biden Laptop Story
Matt Taibbi, who is 52 years old, has been criticised by a number of journalists, for his investigative piece disclosing how Joe Biden’s team had asked Twitter’s higher-ups to take down tweets connected to the damning information about Hunter Biden’s laptop.
Numerous tweets that were critical of the American writer echoed the same sentiments, asserting that he was merely carrying out publicity for the wealthiest individual globally.
Musk declared that he gave the go-ahead to Taibbi and journalist Bari Weiss to make known what they believed the US public should be aware of, as per Mediaite reports, implying that he instructed the reporters to uncover whatever they thought was of relevance to the public.
In his comments, Tabiti wrote: “Twitter took extraordinary steps to suppress the story, removing links and posting warnings that it may be ‘unsafe. They even blocked its transmission via direct message, a tool hitherto reserved for extreme cases, e.g. child pornography.”
Naturally, that did not sit well with Elon who wanted to let everyone know in no uncertain terms that he was merely trying to live up to his promise of increasing freedom of speech on the platform.
And in the process of doing so, he slammed the media for putting barriers in the way of doing that. His following comments confirmed as much: “[The media should] look in the mirror [and challenge their lies] the American people.”
The response on social media reflected what Elon had to say. A certain subset of people felt that there had to be more disclosures in order to satisfy transparency. And as a result, the liberal media were slammed. One person wrote: “The liberal media are traitors to the US.”
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