harris: democrats and liberals still throwing a tantrum. they re pitching all their toys out the crib over this. elon musk has brought twitter. the deal is not quite done but it is coming. twitter employees are also panicking of the future of the platform claiming his purchase will undermine democracy. the tesla ceo fired back at those critics with this tweet. the extreme antibody reaction from those who fear free speech says it all. by free speech i simply mean that which matches the law. i am against censorship that goes far beyond the law. wall street journal op-ed pokes the far left with the headline more hilarious wailing at elon musk. as long as the usual silicon valley overlords controlled all of social media progressives didn t mind. elon musk buys twitter and free
Speech is a national crisis. tammy bruce, host of get tammy bruce on fox nation. there is such a short list of things that i ever get you get excited about. it is the moon shot of freedom of expression and perhaps the most significant action on public communication perhaps in the last 50 to 75 years. because social media would remain a controlling factor in how we converse. we saw especially during the 2020 election the hunter biden laptop dynamic. how easily information could be stopped and withdrawn as twitter act heed as an assignment desk for all other media. even though the majority of americans aren t on twitter it affected the culture outside those bounds about what you saw and didn t see and you can t prove a negative. americans didn t necessarily know what they weren t seeing. this changes that dynamic. it comes back to an american spirit kind of feeling as
Opposed to a totalitarian mid 20th century feeling and what we re able to do in the 21st century. americans pulling this back to what has made the country the greatest nation on the earth. harris: uplifting. a good time to be a happier warrior. harris: look at how many dumpster fire comments there are and the bullying and awful nature of it. very few times in twitter s history that i can remember where anybody had anything positive to say about it. maybe that s even having an effect on the stock price as much as elon musk buying it. it is the change in value that people see in their lives. kayleigh mcenany and i were talking how many people have come back to twitter. on tuesday i look at a separate analytics. i have an average of 300 new followers a day. 8,000 new people. now, we don t know yet. we don t know, this is what we
Hope to see about algorithms. if our words were being throttled or hidden or shadow banned. if people followed you and we didn t know. we don t know yet. we expect to find out. an exciting time because of the power of social media even in fundraising for heroes. sending out better stories. harris: i would get stickered for some of the comments i made about the fraternal order of police when defund was going on. i m a journalist and quoting other people. we ll move on. this chart shows employee donations to mid-term candidates at some of the country s most influential companies, including twitter. it shows in 2018, the mid-terms. 98.7% of donations from employees went to democratic candidates or the party. in 2020, that number was virtually the same. but look at that. the liberal media also went after elon musk s twitter buy-out.
Inappropriate and that s the man who will own twitter. i completely agree with him. i thought cnn pundit that was just basically having a meltdown that now twitter just might be partisan, twitter could dial up and dial down partisan information and the american public may not know about it until after the election. where has this guy been and what planet does he reside on? that s exactly what twitter did when it comes to the hunter biden laptop, our report, a host of conservative censorship that twitter has been engaged in. of course, the news media, the left loves it because twitter has been so highly partisan. it is good news that elon musk will open it up and actually defend freedom of speech. harris: we ll get to this now. a new study by a conservative group estimates the number of illegal immigrants living in the united states right now has surged by 1 million in the