{"id":1721510,"date":"2022-11-02T12:32:39","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T16:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1721510"},"modified":"2022-11-02T12:37:03","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T16:37:03","slug":"elon-musk-taps-jussie-smollett-hoaxer-for-twitter-censorship-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-taps-jussie-smollett-hoaxer-for-twitter-censorship-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Taps Jussie Smollett Hoaxer For Twitter Censorship Advice"},"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\">20<\/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-musk-taps-jussie-smollett-hoaxer-for-twitter-censorship-advice%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=1721510&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>Twitter owner and CEO Elon Musk said he wants to bring <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1499976967105433600?s=20&#038;t=Dq-cOOMg8HUh2NdxGS0Y1Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">free speech absolutism<\/a> to the world, but he isn\u2019t off to a great start after tapping a Jussie Smollett hoaxer for censorship advice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTalked to civil society leaders @JGreenblattADL, @YaelEisenstat, @rashadrobinson, @JGo4Justice, @normanlschen, @DerrickNAACP, @TheBushCenter Ken Hersch &#038; @SindyBenavides about how Twitter will continue to combat hate &#038; harassment &#038; enforce its election integrity policies,\u201d the self-professed \u201cTwitter Complaint Hotline Operator\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1587668703834955778?s=20&#038;t=orQdZ57Vll2o293oxzQGqw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced <\/a>on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Rashad Robinson, president of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/non-profit\/color-of-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">leftist group Color of Change<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rashadrobinson\/status\/1092967548054790145?s=20&#038;t=cViM8eBPoCqqjC-6SC3Qog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">repeatedly<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rashadrobinson\/status\/1090715566523011072\"> tweeted<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rashadrobinson\/status\/1091074581216067584\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">his<\/a> support for Smollet after the \u201cEmpire\u201d actor\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefdrlst.wpengine.com\/2020\/02\/12\/jussie-smollett-indicted-on-six-counts-of-disorderly-conduct-after-faking-his-own-hate-crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">falsely claimed<\/a>\u00a0to be the victim of a racist and homophobic hate crime in 2019. At the time, Smollett claimed two assailants beat him up while screaming, \u201cThis is MAGA country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Politicians, celebrities, leftists, and the corrupt corporate media rushed to ally themselves with Smollett, who was later convicted of five felony counts of disorderly conduct for staging the alleged crime.<\/p>\n<p>Even after evidence suggested Smollett was lying about the alleged attack, Robinson continued to express disdain for anyone who dubbed Smollett\u2019s scheming a hoax. <\/p>\n<p>Robinson prides himself on \u201cChanging written &#038; unwritten rules in media, tech, biz &#038; gov\u2019t.\u201d But given his history of falling for and parroting hoaxes, he is an unworthy and unreliable source for Musk to use in his attempts to correct Twitter\u2019s censorship sins. <\/p>\n<p>Before he won his bid to take over the Big Tech platform, Musk<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/04\/14\/the-left-is-freaking-out-over-elon-musk-because-twitter-rigs-the-game-for-democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> signaled<\/a> his intent to change Twitter from the woke, thought-police platform it has become into a forum where free speech reigns. Once the acquisition was complete, Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/10\/28\/elon-musks-twitter-buy-is-the-first-real-accountability-big-tech-censors-face-for-their-2020-election-meddling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fired<\/a> some of the Silicon Valley giant\u2019s top censors but allowed others to stay. <\/p>\n<p>As Musk moved forward with his plans to monetize verification, he appears to be beholden to some of those censors who were allowed to remain on Twitter\u2019s payroll. That includes Twitter\u2019s head of safety and integrity, Yoel Roth, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/american-politics\/trump-adviser-attacks-twitter-integrity-chief-yoel-roth-over-fact-check-629563\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">largely responsible<\/a> for introducing the Big Tech company\u2019s Covid-19 and election information suppression campaigns. He also <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/meet-the-conspiracy-theorist-behind-twitters-crisis-misinformation-policy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">greenlit<\/a> Twitter\u2019s decision to ban the New York Post\u2019s bombshell reporting on Hunter Biden\u2019s shady overseas business dealings from circulating the site mere weeks before the 2020 election<\/p>\n<p>When several users noted Roth\u2019s history of <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/05\/27\/twitter-fact-checker-has-history-of-politically-charged-posts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">using his anti-Donald Trump bias<\/a> to justify Twitter\u2019s suppression campaign against Americans and the former president, Musk defended his employee. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve all made some questionable tweets, me more than most, but I want to be clear that I support Yoel. My sense is that he has high integrity, and we are all entitled to our political beliefs,\u201d Musk replied. <\/p>\n<p>In the same thread, Musk said his company will \u201cnot allow anyone who was de-platformed for violating Twitter rules back on platform until we have a clear process for doing so, which will take at least a few more weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That means that users such as my colleague John Daniel Davidson, who was thrown<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk said he wants to bring free speech back, but he isn\u2019t off to a great start after tapping a Jussie Smollett hoaxer for advice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":490,"featured_media":1721513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1721510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721510","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\/490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1721510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1721513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1721510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1721510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1721510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}