Not the point. The CEO being the interviewer is an automatic failure in neutrality. Which questions he chooses to ask, the tone in which he asks them, the statements he lets go unquestioned, etc etc etc, these are all subjective choices that are anything but neutral.
Not to mention, step outside the two party lens for a second. If he does this for democrats and republicans then surely he needs to do it for absolutely anyone that declares a presidential candidacy? To do otherwise would be to endorse the two party political establishment, also not a neutral statement.
A truly neutral Twitter would have no problem hosting a Space where a person announces their candidacy. But it would have no further involvement.
> Which questions he chooses to ask, the tone in which he asks them, the > statements he lets go unquestioned, etc etc etc, these are all subjective choices that are anything but neutral.
Have you ever watched "60 Minutes" interview a candidate?
I recently watched Leslie Stahl interview MTG. I didn't know anything about MTG, and still don't, as all Stahl did was try to embarrass her with various rhetorical traps.
It amazes me these people still think Elon is a champion for the idealized notion of free speech and neutrality when every single day he is doing things in public that show his clear contempt for that. Very much shades of Trump saying he could shoot someone on 5th avenue and it wouldn't matter.
I don’t know why you’d think my feelings about the media is some sort of gotcha question, it’s precisely the point.
The criticisms I’m laying out here (including the fact that, yes, interviewers have bias) are exactly the criticisms I and many others would level at corporate media. Despite his claims Musk is emulating them, not proving some radical alternative.
Most people deny the clear and obvious bias (left / democrat) in corporate media. Just like most people denied the clear and obvious left bias in pre-elon twitter.
This then manifests in charging Post-Elon twitter with Right wing Bias because if Pre-Elon Twitter was "neutral" (it was not), Elon moving twitter slightly to the right means it now Right wing ...
Personally I think Elon is centrist, agreeing with some Right wing policies, and some left wing policies, but clearly has a personal bias which is reflected in the policy choices of twitter, too much so IMO.
That said most often when I engage on this subject I am faced with people that have the position that CNN, MSNBC, and NY Times, Washington Post, and other corp media are not organizationally biased, and that Pre-Elon Twitter was a neutral platform, so the hypocrisy of that position is what I challenge.
> Personally I think Elon is centrist, agreeing with some Right wing policies, and some left wing policies, but clearly has a personal bias which is reflected in the policy choices of twitter, too much so IMO.
He spends his entire day reply-guying to right-wing loons on everything from COVID crankery to RaHoWa wannabes and throws around canned-ass Germany-in-the-thirties anti-Jewish bullshit because a guy sold some stock. Where his bread is buttered is simply not difficult to suss out.
Now go on and tell me that anti-Semitism (no, not anti-Zionism, do not give me that dodge) is "centrist".
Not to mention, step outside the two party lens for a second. If he does this for democrats and republicans then surely he needs to do it for absolutely anyone that declares a presidential candidacy? To do otherwise would be to endorse the two party political establishment, also not a neutral statement.
A truly neutral Twitter would have no problem hosting a Space where a person announces their candidacy. But it would have no further involvement.