MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan known as out new Twitter proprietor Elon Musk for claiming he needs to make the website online impartial however in truth is performing on behalf of just one facet.
“He’s already engaged with a number of handiest far-right accounts” Hasan advised fellow MSNBC host Ayman Mohyeldin, noting, as an example, that Musk briefly spoke back to a gripe by way of election denier and conspiracy theorist Tom Fitton with a promise to be “even-handed.”
“Yeah, Ayman, we will have to all be ‘even-handed’ with regards to election denial,” Hasan mocked, then questioned what this portends for the way forward for the platform.
“Is that this how Twitter is gonna paintings now, do you assume, going ahead?” Hasan requested. “Proper-wing crazies make whiny proceedings and the landlord of Twitter, the sector’s richest guy, responds to they all in my view? Now not handiest does that no longer appear to be a just right use of his time, but it surely doesn’t really feel very ― what’s the phrase I’m searching for? ― even-handed.”
Mohyeldin used to be much more blunt in his appraisal, caution advertisers to not “sit down by way of and watch as this web page more and more turns into a cesspool of racists and antisemites” underneath Musk.
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