Musk the Misinformer
Musk the Misinformer
Elon Musk is misleading the public — again.
CNN Reliable Sources, Oliver Darcy
Email
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The embattled billionaire, perhaps seeking to distract from the chaos he has wrought at his social media company, is making grossly misleading claims about Twitter and the FBI. And those claims are being blindly amplified to millions by Fox News and the rest of the powerful right-wing media machine which seems to have no interest in the pesky truth and instead has repeatedly shown they'll contort stories to fit preconceived and erroneous narratives.
In a tweet Tuesday, Musk wrote, “Government paid Twitter millions of dollars to censor info from the public." As supposed proof, Musk shared the latest installment of the so-called "Twitter Files" published the day before by environmentalist and writer Michael Shellenberger.
In those files, Shellenberger published a redacted screenshot of a 2021 email showing that Twitter’s Safety, Content and Law Enforcement division had instituted a "reimbursement program" for its work responding to information requests from the FBI. The document indicated that Twitter had received $3.4 million in reimbursements at the time.
"Prior to the start of this program, Twitter chose not to collect under this statutory right of reimbursement for the time spent processing requests from the FBI," said the email to Twitter’s then-deputy general counsel Jim Baker.
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The fee is for the work of researching not to censor anything or anyone
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