Washington Post issues bizarre accusation against Elon Musk

The Washington Post had readers scratching their heads last week after it published an article titled “Elon Musk’s Twitter Investment Could Be Bad News for Free Speech.” 

The article was written by former Silicon Valley mogul Ellen Pao, who warned that “rich people” such as Elon Musk might take over social media platforms. 

"Musk’s appointment to Twitter’s board shows that we need regulation of social-media platforms to prevent rich people from controlling our channels of communication,” wrote Pao. 

The irony was not lost on internet users, who pointed out that the owner of the Washington Post is Jeff Bezos, the second-richest man in the world. Musk also caught the irony, responding “lmaooo” and “wapo always good for a laugh.” 

The irony was also that Twitter, which heavily polices its conservative users, is currently owned by “rich people”. 

A third irony was that Ellen Pao, who wrote the piece and is worth roughly $150 million, previously controlled social platform Reddit as its CEO. 

In February, WaPo had written another hit piece against Musk, a staunch Libertarian with conservative-leaning views such as free speech absolutism. The article was titled “Elon Musk moved to Texas and embraced celebrity. Can Tesla run on Autopilot?” and slammed Musk for being stretched too thin. 

Musk replied, “Give my regards to your puppet master,” referring to Bezos. 

Last week, Frontline News reported that Twitter employees and the mainstream media immediately began squirming after Musk became the platform’s largest shareholder. Many corporate media outlets ran articles such as the Washington Post’s, perhaps because if Musk manages to convert Twitter into a free speech platform, it will remove the Left’s largest and most effective bully pulpit.  

Just in the last two days, Twitter has suspended popular conservative commentator Jack Posobiec and Republican Juanita Broaddrick, an alleged Bill Clinton rape victim. Broaddrick was locked out for taking the wrong side on the COVID-19 vaccine, despite being supported by science. 

After Musk became Twitter’s largest stakeholder, the board of directors offered him a seat, which Musk reportedly declined yesterday. While the Tesla CEO has so far kept mum regarding the reason, many speculate that Musk wants to take over Twitter, which he would be unable to do if he were on the board. 

“Mr. Musk agrees that, for so long as Mr. Musk is serving on the Board and for 90 days thereafter, Mr. Musk will not, either alone or as a member of a group, become the beneficial owner of more than 14.9% of Company’s common stock outstanding at such time, including for these purposes economic exposure through derivative securities, swaps or hedging transactions,” read a signed agreement between Twitter and the SpaceX founder.