{"id":1515328,"date":"2022-06-14T12:34:13","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T16:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1515328"},"modified":"2022-06-14T12:34:16","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T16:34:16","slug":"elon-musks-slams-twitters-bias-against-half-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musks-slams-twitters-bias-against-half-the-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musks Slams Twitter\u2019s &#8220;Bias Against Half the Country&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Felon-musks-slams-twitters-bias-against-half-the-country%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=1515328&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--><p>The world\u2019s richest person is slamming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-twitter\">Twitter<\/a>\u2019s \u201cbias against half the country\u201d and demanding answers after Twitter allegedly did not remove accounts of users who made death threats against a conservative user.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA platform cannot be considered inclusive or fair if it is biased against half the country,\u201d Tesla and SpaceX CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-elon-musk\">Elon Musk<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1536555363453095937\">wrote<\/a> on June 13, in response to another Twitter user\u2019s post on the same day saying, \u201cOn a just platform, everyone would be treated equally. As it is, you can be banned [on Twitter] for merely criticizing (not even threatening) woke progressives, but they can send conservatives death threats without any repercussions.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A platform cannot be considered inclusive or fair if it is biased against half the country<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1536555363453095937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Musk\u2019s comments came after a dozen Twitter users allegedly directed death threats against Twitter user Libs of TikTok\u2014short for Libertarians of TikTok<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have not received about a dozen death threats after radical leftists accused me of being a domestic terrorist extremist,\u201d Twitter user Libs of TikTok wrote. \u201cTwitter has not removed any of the accounts of those who sent the threats.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In reply to the post, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tagged Twitter and asked, \u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\">Why? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Twitter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1536531570613334016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Libs of Tiktok, a Twitter page with more than 1.2 million followers and operated by Chaya Raichik, regularly posts content criticizing liberal, left-wing, and LGBTQ events and ideas.<\/p>\n<p>For example, Libs of Tiktok wrote in a post on June 13, \u201cA children\u2019s hospital in Nebraska is co-hosting a children\u2019s pride event. They advertise there will be a booth where attendees can make an appointment for \u2018gender affirming care\u2019 such as puberty blockers.@ChildrensOmaha receives millions in funding.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A children\u2019s hospital in Nebraska is co-hosting a children\u2019s pride event. They advertise there will be a booth where attendees can make an appointment for \u201cgender affirming care\u201d such as puberty blockers. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChildrensOmaha?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ChildrensOmaha<\/a> receives millions in funding. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LKrKHkArpR\">https:\/\/t.co\/LKrKHkArpR<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nvp1j9ZCvb\">pic.twitter.com\/nvp1j9ZCvb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/libsoftiktok\/status\/1536455155457171457?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 13, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Raichik\u2019s stance has drawn hostility from some on the left, including a Twitter user with the handle \u201c@thisisironicfr\u201d who claimed to have sent her a pipe bomb on June 13.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Hi <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FBI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FBI<\/a>, I\u2019m being threatened with a pipe bomb. Can you please look into this? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/u9Vu2QT9Yp\">pic.twitter.com\/u9Vu2QT9Yp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/libsoftiktok\/status\/1536387643440865283?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 13, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In response to Musk\u2019s post, Raichik posted on June 13 \u201creceipts\u201d of Twitter users who sent death threats against her.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Receipts! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/txvVu7XVos\">pic.twitter.com\/txvVu7XVos<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/libsoftiktok\/status\/1536533686765686785?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Elon Musk, who is negotiating a multi-billion dollar deal with Twitter, said Twitter has a \u201cstrong left-wing bias\u201d in May. The billionaire also called censorship on Twitter a \u201ccivilization risk\u201d in April and suggested in May that he will lift the ban imposed on former U.S. President Donald Trump after he takes ago.<\/p>\n<p>According to conservative commentator Jack Posobiec, the exchange between Musk and Raichik will be \u201cinteresting\u201d considering Raichik is one of the first people who obtained internal discussions of Twitter employees about banning her page.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">As far as I know <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/libsoftiktok?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@libsoftiktok<\/a> is one of the first people to ever leak actual internal comms from within Twitter<\/p>\n<p>And now she is talking to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ElonMusk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Things just got a whole lot more interesting<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jack Posobiec \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@JackPosobiec) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackPosobiec\/status\/1536544065445150720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe received our third Twitter suspension just last week for posting fliers of pride events,\u201d wrote Libs of Tiktok in a June 14 article on its website, within an hour of Musk\u2019s reply to the post about death threats. \u201cI had created a \u2018mega drag thread\u2019 which documented the sharp rise in drag events for kids. It\u2019s a disturbing trend; the Left has become obsessed with ensuring your 4-year-old has access to men dressed as women while dancing provocatively for cash.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that I was noticing\u2014and drawing attention to how widespread this trend really is\u2014seemed to trigger the Left.\u201d the article reads. \u201cThe below Slack conversation between Twitter employees occurred today against this backdrop, and echoes some of the charges leveled at us by far left activists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs you can see, they\u2019re weighing the pros and cons of banning us,\u201d the article added. \u201cBut again, you don\u2019t need leaked messages to know just how biased and agenda-driven these people are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt only confirms what we already see with our own eyes every day.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-gary-bai\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Gary Bai is a reporter for Epoch Times Canada, covering China and U.S. news.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s richest person is slamming Twitter\u2019s \u201cbias against half the country\u201d and demanding answers after Twitter allegedly did not remove accounts of users who made death threats against a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1515328","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\/1515328","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1515328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1515328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1515328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1515328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}