MSNBC’s Katy Tur warned viewers on Thursday about the immense consequences that could follow if Tesla CEO Elon Musk could buys Twitter.
Following the tech mogul’s announcement that he has offered to purchase Twitter, liberal commentators and news figures criticized the move as potentially damaging to social media. On “Katy Tur Reports,” Tur commented on Musk’s proposal and discussed how Twitter affects democracy.
“Twitter is very tricky, and it’s had a large effect on democracies abroad, but also here as we saw last year with the insurrection and as we saw in 2016 with the election,” Tur said.
New York Times contributor Kara Swisher noted that Musk’s previous 9.1% Twitter stock purchase already put the company “under leverage” over whether to allow former President Trump to rejoin the platform.
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