Elon Musk banned several prominent journalists from Twitter Thursday evening, calling into question his commitment to free speech. CNN's Erin Burnett Out Front reveals a heated discussion between the CEO, The Washington Post's Drew Harrell and Buzzfeed's Katie Notopoulos. #CNN #News
Hear how Musk responded to journalists before he hung up mid-question
This is why children shouldn’t be in control of their own wealth.
😂🤣🤣
REALLY SMARTASS, SO DO YOU WANT TO CONTROL HIS WEALTH, DUDE?GO AHEAD AND TELL HIM.
All news orgs need to pull themselves off twitter, no need to keep providing little musky content
@joshuaoverlord i think you underestimate the value of advertisers. why do you think twitter bent the knee to the gods of corporate consumerism? why do you think “go woke go broke” never proves true? because when you are more inclusive, you get more customers, thus more money.
@Doogie Bear ask the advertisers. look up their reasons for dropping twitter.
@Michael Finnigan actually vice went woke and it almost gone completely broke by now. Netflix stocks tanked Disney stocks are tanking. So the saying you go woke you go broke is true because no one wants to put their money towards something that jams inclusivity in your face
@joshuaoverlord i don’t think commercial entertainment is indicative of woke. they may virtue signal as a form of advertisement, and that is what i mean by expanding your appeal.
no one perceives the presence of representation to be jamming inclusivity in their faces.
they don’t think of inclusivity as something that needs to be jammed, it’s an expectation.
netflix has had value problems since day one.
disney had an uncharacteristic spike in 2021, to their highest value ever. i would say their current value is a correction. they hit a lower spot in 2020, but i see no reason to expect their long term value to drop.
vice was founded from the very start with youth as their target audience, i don’t see how you can remain relevant to that demographic without being aware of social inequalities.
and going briefly through their wiki, i don’t see exactly how they are woke. one of their founders was a proud boy. he’s one of the people advocating for closing our eyes to systemic inequities. the guy said he was happy most williamsburg hipsters were white, then we got pushback did the “it was just a prank, you see i was just pranking the establishment media”.
i’m going to ask you a question that was asked of desantis’ lawyers.
what is woke?
@Michael Finnigan what is being woke. Best way to describe it is to force diversity and inclusion. Like with the buzz lightyear movie they forced a lesbian kissing scene and there was spark parent outrage. There’s also the Netflix adaptation of cowboy Bebop where they changed characters drastically for the sake of diversity. There’s also the resident evil one from Netflix too.
Just what the world needs another billionaire troll. 🤪
says the guy who has the name as Jesus was a Liberal…
@Tom King Says the guy who probably thinks Jesus was a dishwater blonde with blue eyes.
@J P … yes?
Happy to say I’m 30 and never made a Twitter lol. Dont know how I survived.
@BLT4LIFE true 😂
@The Dave and Jim Show i needed a twitter account to have my spotify artist account verified… Ridiculous huh. Twatter is near pointless really. Those who value it as a source of information need a long hard look in the mirror.
If it wouldn’t compromise my artist account, I’d delete my twitter right away.
68 here and I have a life. Been to busy for anything like Twitter or any of the others and I’m not to keen on addictions either.
Yes. By freedom of speech they only mean the freedom of their hate speech.
Love and fresh air presumably.
He did the same thing when he released Twitter files belonging to certain Twitter members!! He’s a hypocrite!!
He doxxed people he banned and released real-time information on where they were? Weird. I don’t remember that.
I doubt you paid any attention to the Twitter files because if you did you would know that the emails between employees that were identified were verified by the sender/receiver and lower level employees names were redacted.
@You Tuber So I guess Hunter Biden was in that category!! B. S.
@You TuberYou people want to place Elon Musk’s failures at Twitter on the former employees and executives!! It won’t work because he has been exposed!! MAGA radical!!
@You Tuber The Twitter files is pure B.S. and you know it!! Propaganda and misinformation designed to make Elon Musk look like the victim at Twitter!! Why even do such nonsense!!??
I’ve never been on Twitter but if I was, I would send some mean Tweets about Musk just to see if my freedom of speech would be suspended by King Elon.
Before Musk, Twitter was total censorship, a platform for lying Nazis. I hope Musk will bring the spirit of freedom and justice there.
You quite obviously don’t understand how the 1st amendment works…..
We have seen the best of E. Mosk, from here on its down hill.
They are referring Twitter as a “vital”tool? (necessary for the success or continued existence of something; extremely important). Are you kidding?
No, neither they nor I am kidding, and incredulity and ignorance are not an argument it isn’t a vital tool for them (and many others).
You know, if everyone just deleted their accounts, it would put this troll out of business. I assure you your life will go on without Twitter. I’m sure some other platform will come along. This whole thing is the most First World Problems I’ve ever seen.
Freedom of speech is calling people pedophile when they are better than you – according to Musk.
Looool
If you mean one of the divers involved in the cave rescue of all those children, he won that in a Court. Apparently, the man he called a pedophile was, in fact, a pedophile.
Since Elon bought Twitter seems like he’s not working anymore and just sitting, trolling. This is what happens when you let your parents use social networks, in case of Elon, to buy one. They ruin fun for everyone
@LowStuff https://youtu.be/fNKgJm0ALYs
You can literally YouTube it
@joshuaoverlord he’s actually not ruining the fun for everyone. It’s been rather entertaining watching the Twitter bonfire as an outsider. Elon Musk’s money is burning up like smoke.
@Sky Cloud I don’t have Twitter but if just dishonest to say he ruining it. He just applying the rules evenly now
@LowStuff You’re wrongly generalizing and dismissing his contributions. I really don’t like what he’s doing lately, but to be fair, he deserves credit. All the companies he bought (and some he started) were pretty crap at the beginning and worked crazy hard and he made them amazing, literally world changing and humanity for the better. We abandoned decades in tech because of him alone. It was all pretty good until Twitter.
I don’t get why it’s so popular anyway. I only have an account there for entering contests. Haha
Imagine your ego being this fragile.
@Kelvin Zandana imagine falling over and over again for con men..
@Prince and friends Which com men are you referring to???
@Kelvin Zandana yeah, that’s the sad part…you don’t even recognise them
Doxing is a serous issue just look at what Trump has done which has caused people to be stocked. I for one mask my identity as an employer once tried to use a comment I made grounds for dismissal. I criticized a political figure which he was doing business with and when this political figure found out were i worked he tried to have me sacked. further recently Journalists gave out a YouTubers address who reported on political criminals and his house was Firebombed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI3zaHUsgXg
Journalists have a responsibility in there reporting to not cause people to fear for their safety. “Truth”, “accuracy”, and “objectivity” are cornerstones of journalism ethics the reporter need to reflect on weather there action could have caused people to fear for their or their families safety.
Elon and Kanye need to get together and plan out this spiral into madness thing they are both doing.
@Kelvin Zandana You clearly have a room temperature IQ.
@Morzanith Ok, but Elon is keeping you up at night. That’s awesome 👍
@Kelvin Zandana I’m working. Not trying to sleep. It would literally be impossible for anyone to “keep me awake at night”. Are you and Elon boyfriends because your tongue sure is licking his tight pink money hole?
@Aquarium Life29 Put down the meth pipe bro….
He’s the kid who takes his ball home and says he don’t wanna play anymore 😂
and you’re the kids that run home to mommy and cry
And you’re the kids who attack with rocks and bricks when things don’t go your way
his ball
He really believes that Twitter is his own new toy and everyone must accept that.
it is though, he paid for it, wtf did everyone really expect?
You have a problem with him banning people who endanger children? No wonder you voted for a corrupt segregationist whose own daughter accused of show erring with her.
He’s the weird kid that while playing with other children suddenly grabbing up all the toys screams these are all mine! 😂
Yep. Had a cousin just like him, with autism. He was very smart, went to Oxford, but gee, he was a weird moody, arrogant kid.
He owns Twitter. He can do anything he likes with it. I just don’t use it, that’s all. I have a life.
At some point we should probably stop using Twitter and stop talking about it. Of course, I’m talking from the POV of journalists.
So inspiring to see the “free speech absolutist” exercising his absolute power over said notion of free speech 🤣 Clearly introspection is not one of the Chief Twit’s forte.
“Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press…”
Journalists have special protection under the first amendment, Mr Musk.
I had so much hope for Elon. I really thought he was smart enough to avoid politics and focused enough to take us to Mars. I hope he gets his head straight again.