{"id":1479146,"date":"2022-05-18T08:15:37","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T12:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1479146"},"modified":"2022-05-18T10:02:32","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T14:02:32","slug":"twitter-exec-mocks-aspergers-musk-in-secret-project-veritas-video-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitter-exec-mocks-aspergers-musk-in-secret-project-veritas-video-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Exec Mocks \u2018Aspergers\u2019 Musk In Secret Project Veritas Video: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftwitter-exec-mocks-aspergers-musk-in-secret-project-veritas-video-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1479146&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/GettyImages-1395371342-1.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>One Twitter executive should be polishing his resume today, after incoming boss <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/elon-musk\">Elon Musk<\/a>\u00a0caught Project Veritas\u2019s latest undercover video, which shows the purported employee ridiculing the billionaire for having Asperger\u2019s and believing in free speech.<\/p>\n<p>The employee, identified by Project Veritas as Lead Client Partner Alex Martinez, mocks the billionaire, admits the social media platform censors users, and in an ironic twist, says he knows the undercover journalism organization is out to record Twitter employees and is being extra cautious.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has Asperger\u2019s,\u201d Martinez says on the recording, which appears to have been made at a bar or restaurant. \u201cSo he\u2019s \u2018special.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m like, \u2018You\u2019re \u2026 special needs. You\u2019re literally special needs,\u201d Martinez said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Twitter executive calling Elon Musk mentally handicapped, &#8220;special&#8221; and saying he has &#8220;aspergers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This Twitter exec goes on to say that Twitter is &#8220;not here to give people free speech&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@elonmusk<\/a> is going to want to see this one too\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dQZamaLiC8\">pic.twitter.com\/dQZamaLiC8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bennyjohnson\/status\/1526720931581894656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 18, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Musk, who revealed he has Asperger\u2019s in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-57045770#:~:text=Tech%20entrepreneur%20Elon%20Musk%20has%20revealed%20he%20has,programme%20-%20to%20loud%20cheers%20from%20the%20audience.\">appearance on \u201cSaturday Night Live<\/a>\u201d last year, responded on Twitter, and did not seem pleased.<\/p>\n<p data-t=\"{\">\u201cTwitter exec trashing free speech &#038; mocking people with Asperger\u2019s,\u201d he wrote, with a frown emoji.<\/p>\n<p>Musk, whose $44 billion bid for Twitter is on hold as he demands an audit to determine how many of the platform\u2019s active daily users are actually bots or spam accounts, has said he wants to take Twitter private to ensure that it functions as a \u201ctown square\u201d for free speech. Nothing Martinez says on the undercover video is likely to convince Musk Twitter is not silencing people over their beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rest of us who have been here believe in something that\u2019s good for the planet and not just to give people free speech,\u201d Martinez says.\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s gonna be hard for him to be like, \u2018Uh, because people should be able to make their own decisions. It\u2019s like people don\u2019t know how to make a rational decision if you don\u2019t put out correct things that are supposed to be out in the public.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Martinez goes on to say Twitter must censor people to be fair.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs an advertiser, as my business what I do every day and why I go out is like, we want [Twitter] to be as fair and transparent and accurate as possible and if that means there\u2019s a level of censorship to make it correct, quote unquote. Again, and what does correct mean? I guess like, it just kind of goes into the idea of, like, what is correct?\u201d he rambles.<\/p>\n<p>The undercover reporter then reads to him from a company warning, pretending to be unfamiliar with his own organization.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt says \u2018groups like \u201cProject Ve-ree-tas\u2019 are active right now,&#8217;\u201d he says. \u201cWhat the f*** is that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Martinez knows who Project Veritas is.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like some group that is trying to just out the employees,\u201d Martinez replies. \u201cLike, they\u2019re trying to go out on dates with them, like this. And record them and then go sell it to The New York Times and say, \u2018This is what the Twitter employee just said.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re lucky you just met me organically, because otherwise, I would be questioning everything about you,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n<p data-t=\"{\">The newest video followed one <a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pnjaban\/status\/1526343370146480128\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{\">a day earlier<\/a>\u00a0showing Twitter senior engineer identified as Siru Murugesan saying Twitter \u201cdoes not believe in free speech.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-t=\"{\">\u201cIdeologically, it does not make sense, like, because we\u2019re actually censoring the right and not the Left,\u201d Murugesan tells an undercover Project Veritas journalist. \u201cSo everyone on the right will be like, \u2018Bro, it\u2019s okay to say it, just gotta tolerate it.\u2019 The left will be like, \u2018No, I\u2019m not gonna tolerate it. I need it censored or else I\u2019m not gonna be on the platform.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One Twitter executive should be polishing his resume today, after incoming boss Elon Musk\u00a0caught Project Veritas\u2019s latest undercover video, which shows the purported employee ridiculing the billionaire for having Asperger\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":729,"featured_media":1482456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1479146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/729"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1479146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1482456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1479146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1479146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1479146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}