This past Wednesday, Elon Musk, the CEO of Twitter, revealed that the social media titan’s new policy will not place penalties on users for putting forth legitimate questions against scientific claims and narratives that are pushed by the mainstream media.
The release from Musk goes public in the wake of his taking a number of shots at leftists this week for buying into mainstream media narratives.
“New Twitter policy is to follow the science, which necessarily includes reasoned questioning of the science,” stated Musk.
New Twitter policy is to follow the science, which necessarily includes reasoned questioning of the science
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 28, 2022
As seen in a follow-up tweet, Musk issued a response to professor Gad Saad, who highlighted a video openly mocking Dr. Anthony Fauci and his choice to retire just as Republicans are slated to take over within the House of Representatives this coming week.
“Anyone who says that questioning them is questioning science itself cannot be regarded as a scientist,” Musk stated in a response to the video about Fauci.
Anyone who says that questioning them is questioning science itself cannot be regarded as a scientist
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 28, 2022
Musk also highlighted a meme that heavily mocked the political Left due to their views on science issues:
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 28, 2022
Just before Musk finalized the buyout of Twitter, the platform’s users would often be slammed with suspensions or permanent bans for even thinking about questioning a number of scientific matters, most notably anything in regard to COVID, vaccines, and transgender issues
Musk put other social media companies, along with Google, on blast earlier this week for alleged censorship across their platforms.
Musk issued comments in response to a post from Glenn Greenwald, a left-wing journalist, who stated: “For the crime of reporting that the US Security State agencies are heavily involved in Big Tech’s censorship regime, and for confessing that he found this deeply disturbing, liberals have spent a full week saying that @mtaibbi has mental health problems and needs therapy.”
As part of the social media posts from Greenwald was a picture of one of journalist Matt Taibbi’s Twitter Files threads.
“The government was in constant contact not just with Twitter but with virtually every major tech firm,” stated Taibbi. “These included Facebook, Microsoft, Verizon, Reddit, even Pinterest, and many others. Industry players also held regular meetings without government.”
Musk answered, “Most people don’t appreciate the significance of the point Matt was making: *Every* social media company is engaged in heavy censorship, with significant involvement of and, at times, explicit direction of the government.”
