Musk has positive impact on social media, the opposite of Obama

 Washington Examiner Editorial:

Former President Barack Obama gave a detailed vision in his speech last Thursday of what direction he wants social media to go. And on Monday, billionaire businessman Elon Musk took Twitter in the opposite direction.

Musk’s willingness to invest his own money in preserving the future of free speech in the United States couldn’t come at a better time.

On a superficial level, Obama’s speech hit all the sensible notes about social media in a modern democracy. He said nice things about the First Amendment, proclaiming himself to be “pretty close to a First Amendment absolutist.” He said he didn't “have a lot of confidence that any single individual or organization, private or public, should be charged or do a good job at determining who gets to hear what.” And he even correctly identified why social media has made the world more polarized, noting that our ability to “occupy entirely different media realities” allows us to “select facts and opinions that reinforce our preexisting worldviews and filter out those that don’t.”

That all sounds pretty fair and evenhanded. But when read more closely, the speech shows that Obama is unable to recognize his own prejudices.

All of the examples of misinformation Obama identified in his speech — including former President Donald Trump’s claim that the 2020 election was stolen, vaccine skepticism, and 2016 Russian disinformation targeting black voters — all come from his political opponents. Not once in his entire speech did he entertain the possibility that disinformation comes from the Left too.

And of course it does, often with catastrophic effects. He did not mention even once the Steele dossier, filled with lies about Trump that had been secretly paid for by Hillary Clinton’s campaign. He failed to note the disinformation campaign by certain current and former U.S. intelligence officials that the emails on Hunter Biden’s laptop were fakes created by Russia. Obama made no reference to the Left's disinformation campaign about Florida’s Parental Rights in Education law in which the media took part by calling the law the “Don’t Say Gay” bill nor to concerted Democratic disinformation campaigns about the effects of election reform laws in Georgia and Texas, among other states.

And naturally, Obama failed to mention his own "Lie of the Year" award, which he won from PolitiFact in 2013 for telling people that “if you like your health plan, you can keep it” under Obamacare.

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The Democrats have been a disinformation machine for years.  The Russian collusion hoax that Obama was in on with Hillary Clinton should go down in history as one of the most dishonest responses to losing an election.  It was not a matter of opinion but a matter of a deliberate fraud to try to overturn an election.  Trump's opinion that the 2020 election was stolen appears to be based on some serious evidence that is still coming in.  There is clear evidence that there was an attempt to rig the election against him that appears to have been successful.  It is evidence that should be examined before concluding that it was a lie.

Returning social media to a free speech platform appears to scare the left in this country.  They never seem to mind that they had been used to perpetuate the Russian collusion hoax or that they blocked truthful information about Hunter Biden's laptop that exposed the Biden family corruption.

See, also:

Musk’s Twitter Purchase Will Bring Back Free Speech and Expose What Was Done to Stifle It

And: 

Total Meltdown: Liberals Absolutely Losing Their Minds Over Elon Musk Buying Twitter

Another positive impact of the move: 

Moving to Canada: ‘Leaving Twitter’ Trends Amid Reports of Musk Deal Talks