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It would be funny if it wasn’t so harmful. Earlier this week, Washington Post hypocritical malefactor and tech reporter Taylor Lorenz proved herself to be a pathological liar after erroneously claiming an editor of the Drudge Report was “relentlessly” harassing her. She later deleted the tweets and bizarrely claimed the caller was lying about his identity before later insisting it was…

Twitter announced it is testing a new feature that allowed a user to share his or her tweets with a specific number of people. “Twitter Circle” allowed users to restrict tweets to 150 specific people or less as a group.

On NBC’s Today show Tuesday morning, co-host Savannah Guthrie sat down for an exclusive interview with billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates and fretted that his fellow billionaire Elon Musk taking over Twitter would lead to a surge in “misinformation.” She pushed that fear after complaining that the response to the pandemic has “been so politicized.”

Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey actually slammed  Twitter censorship, acknowledging that the platform has made mistakes in the past.

On Saturday, Hot Air’s weekend editor Jazz Shaw reported on “a growing obsession on the left these days wherein the government, the tech oligarchs, and a growing swath of mainstream media outlets have taken to openly mocking the idea of free speech.” He specifically cited: “One of the latest and most glaring examples of this disastrous trend can be found this week at Time Magazine, where…

A federal judge ruled that a journalist’s lawsuit against Twitter can proceed. Alex Berenson, an independent journalist, sued Twitter after he said the platform suspended him for his tweets on the COVID-19 vaccine.

Facebook “whistleblower” Frances Haugen said she was “cautiously optimistic” about Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter. Haugen alleged last year that Facebook prioritized its own profits over public safety and encouraged content moderation in her testimony to Congress.

MSNBC’s Ali Velshi better hope than Elon Musk is as committed to free speech as he says he is because in the first hour of his Saturday show, Velshi repeated an anti-Semitic trope about Israel before lamenting Musk’s idea of free speech in the second hour.

On MSNBC’s Morning Joe Friday, co-hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough eagerly brought on left-wing Business Insider columnist Linette Lopez to offer wild speculation that billionaire Elon Musk’s buyout of Twitter would somehow result in the collapse of the richest man in the world’s “entire business empire.”

Americans largely think Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter will make it better, and that they’ll use it more often, now that the free-speech billionaire has purchased the giant social media platform.

As if the New York Times news pages weren’t crazed enough about Elon Musk,Times opinionizers really kicked up the dramatics over the billionaire entrepreneur acquiring Twitter, led by editorial board member Greg Bensinger’s aggrieved take in Tuesday’s edition, “Twitter Under Elon Musk Will Be a Scary Place.” Bensinger, whose livelihood depends on tolerance for free expression…

The world’s richest man went from liberating Twitter to blasting leftist extremism. Someone break out the popcorn. Wait But Why blog website founder Tim Urban retweeted a meme graph shared by Tesla CEO Elon Musk illustrating the current political divide in the country. The graph showed that as liberals pushed farther left, traditional liberals were left behind and now considered right-wing.…

Elon Musk said Twitter must remain “politically neutral” in order to gain public trust. Musk sent out several tweets that expressed his desire to uphold freedom of speech on the platform. “For Twitter to deserve public trust, it must be politically neutral, which effectively means upsetting the far right and the far left equally,” he tweeted.

Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter has spurred a lot of salty takes on corporate media, and some of the saltiest takes of all have come via CNN En Español and anchor Juan Carlos López.