{"id":1519351,"date":"2022-06-16T16:49:05","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T20:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1519351"},"modified":"2022-06-16T18:16:09","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T22:16:09","slug":"project-veritas-leaks-twitter-meeting-with-elon-musk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/project-veritas-leaks-twitter-meeting-with-elon-musk\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Veritas Leaks Twitter Meeting With Elon Musk"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fproject-veritas-leaks-twitter-meeting-with-elon-musk%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=1519351&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><\/div>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">In footage obtained by Project Veritas of Thursday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/elon-musk-to-directly-address-twitter-employees-for-the-first-in-all-hands-meeting\">meeting with Twitter employees,<\/a> Elon Musk stressed the importance of having <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/twitter-obv-has-a-strong-left-wing-bias-elon-musk-on-the-necessity-of-free-speech\">free speech<\/a> on the platform he is in the process of purchasing.<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">&#8220;I think it\u2019s essential to have free speech and for \u2014 and to be able to communicate, yeah, just communicate freely,&#8221; the SpaceX and Tesla CEO said in the virtual meeting.<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\"><\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">&#8220;In order for people to have trust in Twitter, I think it\u2019s extremely important that there\u2019d be transparency,&#8221; Musk later added.<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">Musk also stressed the importance of Twitter not &#8220;driving a narrative&#8221; on its platform.<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">&#8220;If there are multiple opinions, but \u2014 and just make sure we\u2019re not sort of driving a narrative,&#8221; Musk said.<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">&#8220;I think Twitter in terms of, like, serious issues can be a lot better at informing people about serious issues,&#8221; he later continued.<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">&#8220;How many times has \u2014 have the media gotten it [narrative] right? I would say almost never, not never, but almost never,&#8221; Musk added.<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">Twitter\u2019s chief marketing officer and head of people Leslie Berland continued on to ask Musk about his personal political views.<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">&#8220;My political views I think are moderate,&#8221; said Musk. &#8220;I\u2019m in favor of moderate politics. But, you know, allowing people who have relatively extreme views to express those views within the bounds of the law.&#8221;<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">&#8220;It\u2019s free speech within the context of the law. So, it\u2019s not \u2014 I\u2019m definitely not suggesting that we just flout the law cause we\u2019ll get shut down in that case.<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">&#8220;And, I think there\u2019s also \u2014 there\u2019s freedom of speech or freedom of reach,&#8221; said Musk.<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">Musk explained that he thinks people should be able to express some &#8220;pretty outrageous things&#8221; that are &#8220;within the bounds of the law&#8221; on the platform, but that these posts &#8220;don\u2019t get amplified,&#8221; and get limited reach.<\/section>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"rumble\" src=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/embed\/v16310h\/?pub=4\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">Musk continued on to explain his goals for Twitter, which he is currently in the process of purchasing.<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">&#8220;And I think an important goal for Twitter would \u2014really try to include as much of the country, as much of the world as possible,&#8221; said Musk.<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">&#8220;So, the things that I\u2019ve said about Twitter, I think need to happen in order for it to be \u2014 to really go to the next level. I mean, I think the potential is there for Twitter to have \u2014 be accessible to an order of magnitude more people.<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">&#8220;Let\u2019s say the far left 10 percent, and far right 10 percent were equally upset on Twitter, then that would probably be a good outcome.<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">&#8220;The standard is much more than not offending people. The standard is \u2014 should be that they are very entertained and informed,&#8221; he said.<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">The meeting marks the first time that Musk has spoken directly with his prospective future employees since his <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/breaking-twitter-and-elon-musk-reach-buyout-deal\/\">purchase of the platform<\/a> was announced in April.<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">Musk has <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/musks-twitter-deal-on-hold-until-ceo-proves-bot-accounts-are-less-than-5-percent-of-users\/\">threatened<\/a> to pull out from or postpone the deal, requesting in May that the platform prove that less than 5 percent of the platform\u2019s users are bot accounts.<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">An <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/breaking-elon-musks-lawyers-send-letter-to-twitter-threatening-to-terminate-deal-over-inflated-user-data\/\">attorney<\/a> for Musk sent a letter to Twitter in June requiring that the company send these figures in order for the deal to continue.<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">&#8220;At this point,&#8221; attorney Mike Ringler wrote. &#8220;Mr. Musk believes Twitter is transparently refusing to comply with its obligations under the merger agreement, which is causing further suspicion that the company is withholding the requested data due to concern for what Mr. Musk&#8217;s own analysis of that data will uncover.&#8221;<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">If the deal continues, it is expected to take around six months to close on the offer.<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\"><em>This is a breaking story and will be updated.<\/em><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In footage obtained by Project Veritas of Thursday\u2019s meeting with Twitter employees, Elon Musk stressed the importance of having free speech on the platform he is in the process<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1519438,"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-1519351","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\/1519351","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=1519351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1519438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1519351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1519351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1519351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}