{"id":1774026,"date":"2022-12-13T14:32:54","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T19:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1774026"},"modified":"2022-12-13T14:33:12","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T19:33:12","slug":"did-elon-musk-spend-44-billion-to-say-the-truth-about-his-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/did-elon-musk-spend-44-billion-to-say-the-truth-about-his-son\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Elon Musk Spend $44 Billion To Say The Truth About His Son?"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fdid-elon-musk-spend-44-billion-to-say-the-truth-about-his-son%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=1774026&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>Why did Elon Musk, a 51-year-old celebrity entrepreneur who built the largest fortune in the world by capitalizing on the frontiers of science, embark on a $44 billion crusade to bring free speech to Twitter, and with it, a target on his back? Was he motivated by fame (which he already had)? By ego (which every billionaire has)? His desire to leave a political legacy (which billionaires can easily buy)? Or was there a more personal motivation that transcends the obvious reasons at the surface? The answer probably includes some mix of all of the above. <\/p>\n<p>Before Musk took over the company, dissent from the new left-wing orthodoxy \u2014 which, among other things, dictated that one can defy biology and \u201ctransition\u201d to the opposite sex \u2014 was forbidden. The second batch of \u201cTwitter Files\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/12\/09\/twitter-files-part-two-confirms-the-tech-giant-has-been-shadowbanning-conservatives-for-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">revealed<\/a> the company engaged in widespread shadowbanning to suppress accounts for whatever the platform\u2019s ideological censors labeled as hate speech. <\/p>\n<p>Other accounts, such as those of Federalist Senior Editor John Davidson and the conservative satirical website The Babylon Bee, were outright <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/30\/twitter-locked-my-account-for-telling-the-truth-about-rachel-levine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">suspended<\/a> in March for pointing out the obvious truth that President Joe Biden\u2019s transgender-identifying assistant secretary for health, Rachel Levine, is actually a man. According to Twitter in the pre-Musk era, saying Levine is a man qualifies as \u201chateful conduct.\u201d The Babylon Bee\u2019s suspension was lifted in November while Davidson\u2019s account remains in online purgatory. <\/p>\n<p>In April, The Washington Times reported Musk reached out to the Bee as the Tesla and SpaceX CEO got serious about a complete takeover of Twitter. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBabylon Bee CEO: Twitter\u2019s Bee lockout may have been \u2018last straw\u2019 for Elon Musk,\u201d ran the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2022\/apr\/4\/babylon-bee-ceo-twitters-bee-lockout-may-have-been\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">headline<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Musk] wanted to confirm that we had, in fact, been suspended from Twitter,\u201d Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon told the paper. \u201cHe reached out to us before he publicly asked his followers if they think Twitter \u2018rigorously adheres\u2019 to the principle of free expression. He even mused on that call with us that he might need to buy Twitter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musk sat down for a podcast with The Babylon Bee four months prior, where the rare Silicon Valley tech giant willing to rebuke modern leftism <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/12\/22\/watch-elon-musk-laments-death-of-comedy-owns-liz-warren-and-doubts-aliens-in-babylon-bee-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">trashed<\/a> \u201cwokeness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt its heart, wokeness is divisive, exclusionary, and hateful,\u201d Musk said. \u201cIt basically gives mean people a shield to be cruel, armored in false virtue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In June, it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/magazines\/style\/celebrity\/article\/3182668\/who-elon-musks-teen-transgender-daughter-vivian-jenna\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> that Musk\u2019s 18-year-old son, Xavier Alexander Musk, came out as transgender and filed to change his name to Vivian Jenna Wilson in April. In his petition to the court, he wrote that he requested the change because \u201cI no longer live with or wish to be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Precisely when Musk\u2019s son began to identify as a girl is unknown, but it\u2019s clear that as Musk contemplated a buyout of the blue bird app, issues were brewing in the family. <\/p>\n<p>In October, Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2022\/10\/10\/elon-musk-says-he-lost-transgender-daughter-because-of-neo-marxists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told<\/a> the Financial Times his son had been lost to \u201cneo-Marxists\u201d running the schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;The woke mind virus is either defeated or nothing else matters,&#8217; Musk wrote in a tweet on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":1774029,"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":[8646,4249,6919,4250,8647,6319,6426],"class_list":["post-1774026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-8646","tag-elon","tag-federalist","tag-musk","tag-son","tag-spend","tag-truth"],"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\/1774026","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\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1774026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1774029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1774026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1774026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1774026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}