“Starting soon, we’ll be bringing a new version of the show we’ve been doing for the last six and a half years to Twitter,” Carlson said in aTuesday on the platform. “Free speech is the main right you have. Without it, you have no others.”
It’s not immediately clear if Carlson has a deal with Musk to launch the show on Twitter or if he’s doing it independently. In his video, Carlson said that traditional news is “a lie” because “facts have been withheld on purpose,” and he claimed that Twitter is the only place left where free speech is allowed.
“Amazingly, as of tonight, there aren’t many platforms left that allow free speech,” Carlson said. “The last big one remaining in the world — the only one — is Twitter, where we are now. Twitter has long served where our national conversation incubates and develops… and yet for the most part, the news that you see analyzed on Twitter comes from media organizations that are themselves thinly disguised propaganda outlets.
Carlson was let go by Fox News two weeks ago. He had sent a text to a producer which was the beginning of the end of his relationship with the network, according to a New York Times report. The text, which was sent on Jan. 7, 2021, just hours after Trump supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol, described a scene Carlson found distressing, in which he said “Trump guys” beat up an “Antifa kid.” But the part that upset him was that “it was three against one,” and “it’s not how white men fight.
Meanwhile, Musk is a self-described “free-speech absolutist” who has complained that in the past Twitter censored conservative viewpoints. He closed the $44 billion deal for Twitter last fall. “I am against censorship that goes far beyond the law,” Musk tweeted last year. “If people want less free speech, they will ask government to pass laws to that effect. Therefore, going beyond the law is contrary to the will of the people.
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