Elon Musk: Twitter Was A State Publication, Like Pravda, Controlled By The Far Left
Posted By Tim Hains
On Date November 1, 2023
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Elon Musk said Tuesday on “The Joe Rogan Experience” that when he bought Twitter is was “basically a state publication,” like Pravda, the newspaper of the Soviet Union.
“Republicans were suppressed at ten times the rate of Democrats. That’s because old Twitter was fundamentally controlled by the far left,” Musk said.
ELON MUSK: Jack [Dorsey] didn’t really know this, but the degree to which Twitter was an arm of the government is not well understood by the public. And it was whatever the official government — it was like Pravda, basically, a state publication is the way to think of old Twitter, a state publication.
JOE ROGAN: And was the justification from their perspective that they are progressive liberals, they have the right intentions, it’s important that the progressive liberals stay in government, in power, because this is their —
ELON MUSK: There was basically oppression of any views that would even be considered middle of the road, but certainly anything on the right. I’m not talking like far-right, I’m just talking mildly right. Republicans were suppressed at ten times the rate of Democrats. That’s because old Twitter was fundamentally controlled by the far left.
