From FoxNews.com…
Real Time” host Bill Maher railed against Twitter on Friday for “failing” on what should and shouldn’t be allowed on its platform as Elon Musk takes over the social media giant.
“Has Twitter failed in setting itself up in the past as the judge of what can go out there? And I would say yes, you have,” Maher said during a panel discussion Friday night. “You failed when you threw the New York Post off of Twitter for talking about Hunter Biden’s emails. And it turned out that was a real story. You failed when you said we couldn’t read about whether COVID had come from a lab. You failed!”
Maher pointed to how Twitter slapped the “sensitive content” label on a video produced by the conservative satire The Babylon Bee, which mocked sensitive Twitter staffers freaking out about the Tesla CEO becoming their new boss.
“‘Sensitive content,’ Twitter said. In the video, they were making fun of Twitter for being too sensitive. This is so ‘Through the Looking Glass’!” Maher exclaimed. “This is well within what satire has always been. And the fact that they flagged this for being insensitive shows their complete lack of self-awareness about what their own problem is. If that’s where the line is, you have failed Twitter. You do need a new sheriff.”
Maher bashed Twitter for becoming a “left-wing place” and how media organizations have become “silos” for people who want a narrow their news to match their politics, hoping the platform can become the “town square” Musk says it should be.
“Twitter could be a place where you might see an opinion that you didn’t formally consider, and we need that desperately in America,” Maher said.
