By Yukong Zhao
If the left applied their standards honestly, Elon Musk would be the environmental hero of the 21st century. Tesla, which he founded, has sold 4.5 million electric vehicles, more than any other company in the world. Instead, Musk has become the left’s greatest enemy because he dared to take courageous action to preserve the foundation of American democracy: freedom of speech.
Ever since Musk acquired Twitter in April 2022, the left has launched wave after wave of reckless assaults on him and the renamed X Corp. The propaganda machine of the left has published dozens of articles, all negative, to discredit Musk and the company he bought for $43 billion. These attacks successfully dissuaded many companies from advertising on “X.”
Fortunately, Musk has the money and the will to transform Twitter — a cesspool of censorship — into “X,” a platform that upholds free speech. The company has survived under him for over 18 months.
But the left did not give up. On Nov. 16, Media Matters for America published a report accusing X of placing advertisers’ posts alongside neo-Nazi and white nationalist posts.
However, according to X, “Media Matters manipulated algorithms on the platform to create images of advertisers’ paid posts next to racist, incendiary content” in order to “drive advertisers from the platform and destroy X Corp.”
In response to the Media Matters report — and to Musk’s politically incorrect post regarding Jews, for which he apologized two weeks later — many major advertisers including Apple, Disney, IBM, NBCUniversal/Comcast either stopped or temporarily halted advertising on X. The left came inches away from totally destroying X, the only major social media platform in America free of censorship.
At the recent DealBook Summit hosted by The New York Times, Musk rightly blasted the radical left for caring “about looking good while doing evil.” The advertisers who cut ties with X care far too much about “looking good” while they help the radical left “do evil” by destroying free speech in America.
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