redstate.com By streiff
It would be an understatement to say that much of the media and a lot of the government is losing its crap at this hour as X, formerly Twitter owner Elon Musk engages in a free form “conversation” with former President Donald Trump in an X “space.” Earlier today, the European Union’s commissioner for the internal market, some effete Frenchman who became a Senegalese in 2015, perhaps in honor of his efforts to turn Europe into a Third World sh** hole, named Thierry Breton. Breton warned Musk that the EU will punish him for allowing misinformation or hate speech; see EU Warns Elon Musk to Behave Ahead of His Donald Trump Interview and Musk Is Not Having It.
CNN’s Sara Fischer seemed to think that civilization as we know it would end if Trump and Musk talked without some semi-literate journalism grad “fact-checking” the conversation; see CNN Gets Supremely Triggered Over Donald Trump’s Interview With Elon Musk.
One of the more interesting entities in the “You Can’t Handle the Truth” sweepstakes goes to Washington Post reporter Cleve Wootson at today’s White House press briefing starring Karine Jean-Pierre. This would be the same press briefing where she denied Joe Biden had a medical emergency in Las Vegas despite the audiotapes of the event being made public.
The Washington Post’s Cleve Wootson: “One more, @ElonMusk is slated to interview [@realDonaldTrump] tomorrow — tonight on — on @X. I don't know if the president is going to — feel free to say if he is or not — but I — I think that misinformation on Twitter is not just a campaign… pic.twitter.com/zKxJNF1zbf
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) August 12, 2024
WOOTSON: You’re fine. I have one more.
JEAN-PIERRE: No, go ahead.
WOOTSON: Elon Musk is slated to interview Donald Trump tomor- — tonight on — on X. I don’t know if the president is going to tune in. Feel free to say if he is or not. (Laughter.)
But I — I think that misinformation on Twitter is not just a campaign issue. It’s a — you know, it’s an America issue. What role does the White House, or the president have in sort of stopping that or stopping the spread of that or sort of inter- — intervening in that?
Some of that was about campaign misinformation, but, you know, it’s a wider thing, right?
JEAN-PIERRE: Yeah, no, and you’ve heard us talk about this many times from here, about the responsibilities that social media platforms have when it comes to misinformation, disinformation. Don’t have anything to read out from here about specific ways that we’re working on it. But we believe that — that they have the responsibility. These are private companies, so we — we’re also mindful of that too…
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