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Elon Musk claimed on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast that his social media platform X will be allowed to “exist” if Vice President Kamala Harris wins the presidency.
Musk joined comedian Joe Rogan for a Monday episode of his Joe Rogan Experience podcast where Rogan followed Musk in endorsing former President Donald Trump despite his past criticism of the Republican. Trump recently joined Rogan for a three-plus hour interview.
Musk made his claim about X under a Harris administration while Rogan was praising him for dropping billions on X, then known as Twitter.
“Here’s the hilarious narrative that I keep hearing from idiots. ‘Elon’s a bad businessman. Twitter is worth, you know, 400% less than when he bought it.’ No, it wasn’t worth that in the first place. It wasn’t worth $44 billion, you fucking morons,” Rogan said, also noting there has been an “advertiser boycott.”
Musk pointed to organizations like the nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate — which he argued gives itself away with its Orwellian name — have pushed advertisers to boycott X and he expects more negative attention from the government if Trump loses.
Musk called the Center for Countering Digital Hate a “censorship organization.” Musk’s X Corp. previously sued the Center for Countering Digital Hate, claiming they exaggerated harmful content on the social media platform to turn away advertisers.
“I think if Trump wins, we’ll see, you know, probably most of the boycott will lift,” Musk predicted. “But if Kamala wins, we’ll see that boycott gets stronger and they’ll friggin’ shut [X] down. There’s no way that a Kamala puppet regime would allow X to exist.”
Rogan pushed Musk on this, asking whether he thinks this is an actual potential scenario and Musk claimed the Department of Justice would eventually come after him over what is deemed harmful “misinformation” or “hate speech.”
“They can sic the DOJ on you know, and say, like, you know, they’ve got this whole thing about like hate speech, misinformation or whatever, except that they’re the ones pushing the misinformation, but that doesn’t stop them from filing massive, you know, lawsuits and using the DOJ,” he said.
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