Posted on 04/28/2022 3:56:49 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Things got pretty weird, pretty quickly in the wake of Elon Musk’s trial balloon about buying Twitter, a deal that went through Monday, much to the chagrin of the progressive chattering class who were super duper certain the Tesla and SpaceX boy genius was just foolin’ for fun.
Poor NPR, for example, forced to aggregate what Musk might actually do with his new toy (and, to be fair, they pulled from his own public statements), characterizes the sale this way:
“[T]he world’s richest person who has a penchant for theatrics and erratic behavior is about to have the power to reshape discourse on a social network used by more than 200 million people every day.”
They’re not handling it very well.
Hence, the new federally-run truth commission, brought to you courtesy of Homeland Security.
The Biden administration and progressive activists (including former President Obama) sprang into action following Monday’s announcement and — quite literally — began the process of defining disinformation and calling for its regulation to make sure bad speech was addressed and eliminated from the collective safe space.
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
Indeed.
Defund Leftist NPR.
COVID-19(84) showed us a lot about the world 🌎🌍.
Bow down!... Obey!... Snitch!...
Bttt.
5.56mm
"But we here at the Biden Ministry of Truth don't think that's any of our business ... as long as he is helping us by printing the phony dossiers we give him and doxxing Tik-Tok users that annoy us."
Is that because he could reach at least 198 million more people than they (NPR) could ever hope to?
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