- Musk spoke for nearly two hours in a ‘Twitter Spaces’ audio chat on Saturday
- He addressed files illuminating Twitter’s censorship ahead of 2020 election
- Claimed Twitter acted as an ‘arm of the Democratic National Committee’
- Files released Friday showed Twitter staff discussing ban on Hunter laptop story
- They also show requests from ‘Biden team’ to remove nude images of Hunter
Elon Musk has claimed that Twitter’s censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop scandal was tantamount to interference in the 2020 election.
Musk made the claim in a wide-ranging two-hour audio chat on Twitter Spaces on Saturday night, one day after the publication of internal files relating to Twitter’s October 2020 ban on initial reporting of the laptop contents.
‘If Twitter is doing one team’s bidding before an election shutting down dissenting voices on a pivotal election that is the definition of election interference,’ said Musk.
‘Frankly Twitter was acting like an arm of the Democratic National Committee, it was absurd,’ added the billionaire, who has been highly critical of prior management at the company he purchased five weeks ago.
In the audio chat, Musk also claimed Apple had ‘fully resumed’ advertising on Twitter following a pullback, and said that he banned Kanye West for ‘incitement to violence’ for a tweet displaying a Nazi swastika.