From WWW.FOXNEWS.COM
Critics called out mainstream media outlets for failing to cover Elon Musk’s release of information on Twitter’s censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop story just weeks before the 2020 presidential election.
The major Sunday shows on ABC, NBC, CBS, and CNN devoted a total of seven seconds to the story, prompting Twitter CEO Elon Musk to sound off on the overwhelming silence.
“I think those people should be looking in the mirror and wondering why they were deceptive. Why did they deceive the American public?,” Musk asked. “And instead of trying to redirect blame to Matt Taibbi, they should be accepting some responsibility themselves for not being truthful to the American public.”
MSNBC devoted three minutes of coverage and CNN covered it for just 10 minutes over the weekend.
Fox News contributor Joe Concha said all news outlets should want to fully cover the story transparently in order to preserve American democracy.
Concha went on to highlight liberal media outlets’ double standard for viewing Twitter under its previous leadership as “an example of truth and a deterrent of misinformation” but now failing to cover the censorship that occurred.
“This is by far one of the most egregious examples of an industry doing something that was completely and totally wrong and unethical that we’ve ever seen,” Concha said on “Fox & Friends First” Monday.
He argued that Musk is viewed as a threat amid his fight for free speech.
Musk claimed in a tweet that the platform “interfered in elections” under previous leadership, but he asserted that Twitter will be “more effective, transparent and even-handed” going forward…. (Read more)