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MSNBC’s Ali Velshi better hope than Elon Musk is as committed to free speech as he says he is because in the first hour of his Saturday show, Velshi repeated an anti-Semitic trope about Israel before lamenting Musk’s idea of free speech in the second hour.

On MSNBC’s Morning Joe Friday, co-hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough eagerly brought on left-wing Business Insider columnist Linette Lopez to offer wild speculation that billionaire Elon Musk’s buyout of Twitter would somehow result in the collapse of the richest man in the world’s “entire business empire.”

Americans largely think Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter will make it better, and that they’ll use it more often, now that the free-speech billionaire has purchased the giant social media platform.

As if the New York Times news pages weren’t crazed enough about Elon Musk,Times opinionizers really kicked up the dramatics over the billionaire entrepreneur acquiring Twitter, led by editorial board member Greg Bensinger’s aggrieved take in Tuesday’s edition, “Twitter Under Elon Musk Will Be a Scary Place.” Bensinger, whose livelihood depends on tolerance for free expression…

The world’s richest man went from liberating Twitter to blasting leftist extremism. Someone break out the popcorn. Wait But Why blog website founder Tim Urban retweeted a meme graph shared by Tesla CEO Elon Musk illustrating the current political divide in the country. The graph showed that as liberals pushed farther left, traditional liberals were left behind and now considered right-wing.…

Elon Musk said Twitter must remain “politically neutral” in order to gain public trust. Musk sent out several tweets that expressed his desire to uphold freedom of speech on the platform. “For Twitter to deserve public trust, it must be politically neutral, which effectively means upsetting the far right and the far left equally,” he tweeted.

Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter has spurred a lot of salty takes on corporate media, and some of the saltiest takes of all have come via CNN En Español and anchor Juan Carlos López.

It’s Episode 35 of CensorTrack with TR. This week we talked about a recent MRC study that found 646 cases of censorship that covered criticism of President Joe Biden over the past two years.

The New York Times held its fire against Elon Musk during the will-he-or-won’t-he phase of the drama over the entrepreneurial billionaire’s potential purchase of Twitter, the social media “town square” that has throttled conservative opinion in the name of squelching “hate speech” and “disinformation.” Musk has caused controversy among the left for his strong free-speech proclamations…

The Trump-obsessed comedian Jimmy Kimmel thought he caught the former president in a “got heem” moment last night when trying to make fun of the former president’s Truth Social app. It aged horribly.

On Tuesday, National Review’s media and enterprise reporter Isaac Schorr provided a round-up of some of the most outrageous left-wing media reactions to billionaire Elon Musk buying Twitter, sarcastically noting that for many journalists, “It was the darkest day on Earth since net-neutrality repeal.” He then went through “the hysterical reaction of much of the mainstream press.”

“The extreme antibody reaction from those who fear free speech says it all,” billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk tweeted Tuesday, commenting on the liberal outrage over his purchase of Twitter and plans to open it up to free speech.

If CNN+ wanted yet another example for why it failed so miserably it could look to Tuesday’s edition of Amanpour and Company on CNN International and PBS where CNN+ anchor and business professor Scott Galloway wondered if Elon Musk’s version of free speech includes killing puppies.

Elon Musk had a lot to say about free speech since he purchased Twitter for $44 billion this week. “Suspending the Twitter account of a major news organization for publishing a truthful story was obviously incredibly inappropriate,” he tweeted about Twitter’s famous censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop story from the New York Post.