trolling people, getting attention as some of your top allies tell us? a lot of people say, well, he s like donald trump, he needs the attention. elon musk also knows all of there controversy this controversy drives traffic to twitter. ben domenech, laura fink, thanks so much. up next, the leak of thousands of texts between mark meadows and republican congressmen trying to overturn election, and some of this is pretty wild stuff. if your business kept on employees through the pandemic, getrefunds.com can see if it may qualify for a payroll tax refund of up to $26,000 per employee. all it takes is eight minutes to get started. then work with professionals to assist your business with its forms and submit the application. go to getrefunds.com to learn more. after years of chasing the big idaho potato truck. i finally caught it. oh man. always look for the grown in idaho seal. if you have diabetes, then getting on the dexcom g6
there, suddenly railing about free speech when their friends were banned for one day? here s the thing, we know that journalists are obsessed with hair twitter. their twitter. and, look, i think this was elon giving them just a taste of theiren own medicine in a certain respect. but, look, the omnipresent sort of location factor here is one that is not in any way a defensible or justifiable howard: i agree with that. thing. if i set up an account that a says where every one of amy coney barrett s children is live time, that s totally legal, it s also completely inappropriate howard: you would be and i should be banned immediately. howard: now, bari weiss who worked with musk on the twitter file said the old twitter was governed by people s whims and biases, and it looks like new regime has the same problem. elon hit back and said you re virtue signaling to show you are good in the eyes of the media elite. has musk given ammunition,
in the media? absolutely. you know, one of the things that i ve always been critical of elon musk take taking over twitter was the fact that our most crucial means of communication, now social media, are being subject to the whims of arbitrary rulers, of billionaires and whatever they decide to, which side of the bed they wake up on, who has their ear ends up being permitted or not. elon musk came into twitter promising free speech absolutism, and he defined that as a being you can say anything the law permits, and since then there have been a lot of bannings, kanye west being one and scourge arists being others, however you might if dislike what they re saying, can t conceivably be described can as illegal. i think in order for him to have any credibility in making that promise of restoring free speech, what we need are consistent and clear rules, and we don t have those yet, and i think that episode shows this.
coordinates, but she had everything to do with a history of writing pieces that revealed critical howard: right. she works for business insider, just to clarify. he was using the dc yes, she does. howard: hold on, i ve got to jump in here exposes howard: i m sorry. i know you have a lag i just want to say, it just exposes the fact that he s doing the same thing he s accusing others of. here s the hinge, howie, we have lived through years of the left saying these are the rules, you have to abide by hem. this is a private platform, build your own twitter. you have to aa bide by whatever jack dorsey said or whatever the previous regime in twitter said. these are not rules that are etched in stone and brought down by howard: but you re setting up my question, which is how is it that the journalists who refused to cover the twitter files proving that conservatives were shadow banned and blacklisted, they say, oh, there s not much
laura, to a media establishment that can t stand him? absolutely. but it s not just about ammo, it s also about the business case. we talked in the haas segment about reporters covering the business value and the impact on the businesses. there are so many stories here about the fact that elon musk is driving down the value of a company that he overpaid for, and he was able to do it by borrowing other people s money that banks were happy to lend. so i think that there s the undercurrent here that is not being covered twitter without the journalists is not less valuable than twitter with the journalists. if you approach him as a that s cute, ben, but not accurate. [inaudible conversations] howard: no. i want to read one more thing which is to give you a sense of how journalists view elon musk. drew hardwell of the washington the washington post, one of the guys suspended, sent an e-mail, what do you think about qanon? do you believe this stuff or is it just you owning the