Elon Musk

This week, in one of the most shocking business moves in recent memory, Twitter reversed itself and decided to sell itself after all to Elon Musk, who paid some $44 billion for the privilege. The move was made, at least in part, for ideological reasons; Musk has been vocally critical of Twitter's management of information flow.

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.

Just when you think MSNBC’s Joy Reid can’t sink any lower, she turns around the next day and makes a comment viler than the previous day. Case in point, on Tuesday night’s The ReidOut, Reid spent a second night freaking out over Tesla CEO Elon Musk buying Twitter. 

Morning Joe has given a general thumbs-down on Elon Musk's Twitter takeover. there was an exchange between Mika and NYT Washington bureau chief, Bumiller. The latter uttered that classic line, "we all believe in free speech, BUT . . . "  Bumiller went on to fret about the "guardrails" coming down, and claimed Twitter has become "a platform for a lot of misogyny." A terrified Mika recited a…

On Tuesday, both NBC’s Today show and ABC’s Good Morning America hyped a suggestion from Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos that fellow billionaire and new Twitter owner Elon Musk might be under the influence of China’s authoritarian regime given the amount of business the Tesla CEO does in the country. However, neither network mentioned that in a…

During their second episode following their spring break, the cackling coven of ABC’s The View decided to spout off about billionaire Elon Musk acquiring Twitter and his promise to promote free speech. But according to infinite wisdom co-host Sunny Hostin, Musk was only interested in protecting the free speech rights of “straight white men” and that he was going to “unleash the trolls…

Billionaire Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter was totally about protecting the First Amendment, and had little to do with labor considerations or investing for financial gain. MRC President and founder Brent Bozell made those remarks during an appearance on Fox Business’ Varney & Co. on Tuesday.

Though not anywhere near the DEFCON-1 levels seen on social media and TV on Monday afternoon after it was announced that Elon Musk had bought Twitter, a few White House reporters expressed their misgivings during the Psaki show, including one reporter who was concerned that “purveyors of...misinformation” and “disinformation” would be allowed “to speak” on Twitter and it would be a company…

Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was optimistic about Elon Musk’s $44 billion purchase of the platform. He shared his thoughts in a series of tweets Monday evening. “In principle, I don’t believe anyone should own or run Twitter,” he tweeted.