Posted on 06/10/2022 9:38:25 AM PDT by American Number 181269513
Tesla CEO Elon Musk shot down a claim from the CEO of One America News that he is interested in buying the far-right cable channel, a favorite of supporters of former President Trump.
“We just received a call from somebody very close to @elonmusk telling us that he would like to talk to us about purchasing @OANN,” Robert Herring, the network’s CEO said in a tweet on Thursday.
“Only Twitter,” Musk replied minutes later.
Musk has earned headlines in recent weeks over a deal struck with Twitter to purchase the social media platform. The billionaire has often been critical of the company’s moderation policies, which he has said frequently amounts to censorship.
At the time, the deal was heralded by Republicans, who argued that under Musk’s potential leadership, the platform would take a more hands-off approach to content moderation.
However, Musk is currently in a stand off with Twitter about internal data he says the social media company is refusing to turn over to him as the two sides reportedly hammer out terms for a potential $44 billion sale.
In May, Musk said that he would put the deal to buy Twitter on hold unless the company could provide information that backs up claims that bots only make up 5 percent of the platform’s users.
OAN, which has featured programming supportive of Trump’s unsupported claims of a “stolen” election, was sued last year for defamation by a voting systems company based on statements made about the 2020 election.
Last month, the network was forced to air a retraction acknowledging there had been no widespread voter fraud committed by a pair of 2020 election workers in Georgia as part of a settlement between the workers and the network after they sued over similar claims.
My personal take: People with big spoons trying to stir up things concerning Musk.
“Trump’s unsupported claims of a “stolen” election”
Biden is so awful that we are reaching a point where that line of propaganda won’t matter.
Musk hasn’t been working on throwing a blanket of coverage from space across the globe for nothing. Do people think Starlink is just for providing Internet connectivity? It’s not, Musk will have a worldwide distribution network for all the video/movie content he can handle. It’s going to be a hoot to watch Musk dominate another area, in this case media.
“...buying the far-right cable channel...”
There’s not a thing “far right” about truth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink#Military_capabilities
Streaming movies? Think bigger.
In 2019, tests by the United States Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) demonstrated a 610 Mbit/s data link through Starlink to a Beechcraft C-12 Huron aircraft in flight.[260] Additionally, in late 2019, the United States Air Force successfully tested a connection with Starlink on an AC-130 Gunship.[261]
In 2020, United States Air Force utilized Starlink in support of its Advanced Battlefield management system during a live-fire exercise. They demonstrated Starlink connected to a "variety of air and terrestrial assets" including the Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker.[262]
What I about OAN is it is just straight news. Kind of like how CNN was when they first started out.
There are no pundits putting their spin or opinion on the story. Just the facts.
This is why the Chinese are scared of Starlink.
Herring must be brain-damaged, no CEO of anything more than a lemonade stand would ever do this.
KEYWORD : WIDESPREAD....
One day-—that word will be jammed down the throat of EVERY SINGLE DEMORAT
That’s just the military buying time on a commercial comsat system. The US did that prior to Starlink too, and nobody would mistake an AT&T comsat for a military killsat or reconsat.
skynet
My favorite Musk story is the one where he tried to buy the FBI, but Hillary wouldn’t sell...
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