The announcement that Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk finalized the deal to purchase Twitter for around $44 billion drew polarizing reactions as liberals warned of “hate speech” and conservatives celebrated it as a win for free speech.
Fox News’s Tucker Carlson tweeted for the first time in weeks on Monday, saying, “We’re back.”
Carlson had not tweeted since March 22 when he had been suspended after posting two screenshots of the posts that Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk and the Babylon Bee had written referring to Assistant Health Secretary Rachel Levine, a transgender woman, as a man, saying, “Both of these are true.”
We’re back.
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) April 25, 2022
Monday night, Carlson reacted to Musk’s purchase of Twitter on his Tucker Carlson Tonight show, saying: “Musk’s purchase of Twitter is the single biggest political development since Donald Trump’s election in 2016. It is certainly the most threatening challenge to the corrupt and incompetent leadership of this country.”
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Carlson praised Musk’s purchase, saying the average person “became a little more powerful.”
“Tonight, the tyrants are grieving,” Carlson added.
CNN host Brian Stelter expressed his disdain while equating Musk’s purchase of Twitter to being invited to a party with no rules.
“If you get invited to something where there are no rules, where there is total freedom for everybody, do you actually want to go to that party, or are you going to decide to stay home?” Stelter asked on CNN Monday afternoon.
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Kyle Griffin, an MSNBC producer, tweeted a quote from NAACP expressing concern over Musk’s purchase.
NAACP statement: “Mr. Musk: free speech is wonderful, hate speech is unacceptable. Disinformation, misinformation and hate speech have NO PLACE on Twitter. Do not allow 45 to return to the platform. Do not allow Twitter to become a petri dish for hate speech.”
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) April 25, 2022
“NAACP statement: ‘Mr. Musk: free speech is wonderful, hate speech is unacceptable. Disinformation, misinformation and hate speech have NO PLACE on Twitter. Do not allow 45 to return to the platform. Do not allow Twitter to become a petri dish for hate speech,’” Griffin wrote.
