Elon Musk’s Covert War on Free Speech
Elon Musk’s defense of “free-speech absolutism” is fundamentally bogus. Now that the billionaire culture warrior has completed his purchase of Twitter, the platform will be overrun by toxic disinformation, including deep fakes, insipid propaganda, calls for violence, doxing, and other forms of illiberal anti-speech acts.
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NEW YORK – In 1897, the American newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst sent illustrator Frederic Remington to cover the Cuban War of Independence. When Remington relayed that “there will be no war,” Hearst allegedly cabled back: “You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war.”