MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan referred to as out new Twitter proprietor Elon Musk for claiming he desires to make the web site impartial however in actuality is performing on behalf of just one facet.
“He’s already engaged with a bunch of solely far-right accounts” Hasan informed fellow MSNBC host Ayman Mohyeldin, noting, for instance, that Musk shortly replied to a gripe by election denier and conspiracy theorist Tom Fitton with a promise to be “even-handed.”
“Yeah, Ayman, we must always all be ‘even-handed’ in relation to election denial,” Hasan mocked, then questioned what this portends for the way forward for the platform.
“Is that this how Twitter is gonna work now, do you suppose, going ahead?” Hasan requested. “Proper-wing crazies make whiny complaints and the proprietor of Twitter, the world’s richest man, responds to all of them personally? Not solely does that not appear to be a very good use of his time, however it doesn’t really feel very ― what’s the phrase I’m in search of? ― even-handed.”
Mohyeldin was much more blunt in his appraisal, warning advertisers to not “sit by and watch as this web site more and more turns into a cesspool of racists and antisemites” beneath Musk.
See their full dialogue beneath: