Musk attacked what he called "groupthink amongst the media" during a conversation on the social networking site over the weekend.
As many as two million people listened to the comments made by the world's richest person in a space hosted by Mario Nawfal on the social networking site.
Musk was asked what the "breaking point" was that made him want to buy the platform.
Musk said that it wasn't one thing in particular and that's why he bought the social network. It would be insane.
The conservative satire website was shut down in March after they refused to remove a joke about a government official.
Three weeks later, Musk made his first offer for the company. Since completing his takeover in late October, Musk has restored The Babylon Bee's account among others.
The platform he has called a "digital town square" was the reason he bought it.
Free speech is being suppressed more and more. "This was getting me worried."
The trends were terrible. Unless something is done to reverse the trend against free speech, I feel like everything will be cut off.
Musk pointed to more and more groupthink among the media.
If you don't agree with the groupthink, you're going to be ostracized or your voice will be shut off.
Musk has a track record of shutting down his critics.
He was criticized by a UN human rights official who said that free speech is not a free pass.
Matt Taibbi shared a thread on Friday detailing internal company discussions about suppressing a story about Hunter Biden's laptop.
According to Taibbi, he had to agree to certain conditions in order to publish the documents.
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