Elon Musk Loses It, Scrambles After Epic Backlash
December 17, 2022
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as posted by the channelElon Musk and right-wingers scramble to prove he had a reason to suspend journalists after being criticized, including reporters from CNN, Washington Post, the New York Times and more, but their defense quickly falls apart. John Iadarola and Brett Erlich break it down on The Damage Report.
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WATCHCNN’s Donie O’Sullivan Calls BS On Musk Excuse For Suspending Him in Twitter Purge Says ‘I Poked The Billionaire’
"CNN correspondent Donie O’Sullivan called BS on Elon Musk’s rationale for banning him as part of the Thursday Night Massacre Twitter purge, claiming he was suspended because “I poked the billionaire.”
On Thursday night, Musk began issuing permanent suspensions for a group of journalists who have been critical of his tenure as Twitter CEO, including CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan. The move resulted in a blistering backlash on Twitter, and was followed by a late-night attempt by Musk to clean things up in a Twitter Spaces interview.
Musk claimed the accounts were suspended for “doxxing” because the journalists in question shared information about the @ElonJet account he suspended after promising he never would do that. He abruptly ended the interview when he was challenged by one of the banned journalists, who pointed out that what he described was not, in fact, “doxxing.”
On Friday morning’s edition of CNN This Morning, co-anchors Kaitlan Collins and Don Lemon asked O’Sullivan to explain his side of the story. O’Sullivan told them none of the journalists did what Musk accused them of, and suggested that they were targeted for criticizing Musk:"
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