Elon Musk tells Joe Rogan: “The degree to which Twitter was simply an arm of the government was not well understood by the public. It was a state publication. Republicans were suppressed at ten times the rate of Democrats.” pic.twitter.com/YttNPZL8Tj

— TheBlaze (@theblaze) October 31, 2023

He compared the social media outlet before he took over to Pravda, the official newspaper of the Soviet Union Communist Party.

“There was basically oppression of any views that would – I would even say middle of the road, but certainly on the right,” Musk also said. “Republicans were suppressed at ten times the rate of Democrats because old Twitter was fundamentally controlled by the far-left.”

[I’ve been mainly disappointed by Musk’s performance at Twitter, wasting effort on a silly rebranding rather than taking action to end shadowbanning and other suppression tactics. I will be forever grateful, however, for his $44 billion investment into exposing the Big Brother complex created by government and Big Tech. That’s worth $8 a month to me, at least for a while. — Ed]