Twitter owner <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/elon-musk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elon Musk</a> responded late on Thursday to his platform&#8217;s restricting The Daily Wire&#8217;s &#8220;What Is A Woman?&#8221; by calling the hit documentary &#8220;sensitive content&#8221; and saying that the company&#8217;s systems would be updated tomorrow.
When the entire hour-and-a-half documentary was uploaded to Twitter at 8:13 p.m., the film was quickly restricted and received a label that read: “Visibility Limited. This Tweet may violate Twitter’s rules against Hateful Conduct.”
The designation on the film blocked Twitter users from being able to retweet or share the video with their audiences. The video garnered 5,000+ retweets/quote retweets in just a couple of minutes after being published before it was restricted.
“That was fast,” Daily Wire co-CEO Jeremy Boreing responded. “Even after ⁦@elonmusk ⁩said Twitter’s threat to label What Is A Woman ‘hateful conduct’ and to throttle the film’s reach was a mistake, Twitter did that very thing instantly upon the film going live.”
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That was fast. Even after ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@elonmusk</a>⁩ said Twitter’s threat to label What Is A Woman “hateful conduct” and to throttle the film’s reach was a mistake, Twitter did that very thing instantly upon the film going live. <a href="https://t.co/RF5K5oHyOq">pic.twitter.com/RF5K5oHyOq</a>
&mdash; Jeremy Boreing (@JeremyDBoreing) <a href="https://twitter.com/JeremyDBoreing/status/1664426462672199682?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 2, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Musk, who earlier in the day said that some people at Twitter made a &#8220;mistake&#8221; by restricting the film and that it was &#8220;definitely allowed,&#8221; responded to his company restricting the film just moments after The Daily Wire launched the documentary on the platform.
&#8220;We’re updating the system tomorrow so that those who follow @realDailyWire will see this in their feed, but it won’t be recommended to non-followers (nor will any advertising be associated with it),&#8221; he wrote.
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&#8220;Commenting &amp; deliberate sharing will be allowed,&#8221; Musk added. &#8220;Sensitive content just won’t be pushed to people unless they ask for it or a friend sends it to them.&#8221;
Daily Wire podcast host Candace Owens fired back at Musk by calling out his claim that the film was &#8220;sensitive content.&#8221;
&#8220;What specifically is sensitive about a 2 hour documentary that asks people &#8216;what is a woman&#8217;?&#8221; Owens asked. &#8220;Positively ludicrous to refer to this content as sensitive. People are sensitive. The content itself is not.&#8221;
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What specifically is sensitive about a 2 hour documentary that asks people “what is a woman”? 
Positively ludicrous to refer to this content as sensitive. 
People are sensitive. 
The content itself is not.
&mdash; Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1664437457343897600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 2, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Elon Musk Responds To Twitter Restricting ‘Sensitive’ Daily Wire Film, Candace Owens Fires Back With Pointed Question

Elon Musk Responds To Twitter Restricting 'Sensitive' Daily Wire Film, Candace Owens Fires Back With Pointed Question

Big Tech

Candace Owens

Elon Musk

The Daily Wire

Twitter

U.S.

What Is A Woman

Twitter restricted the launch of The Daily Wire&#8217;s hit documentary &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/what-is-a-woman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">What Is A Woman?</a>&#8221; on the platform Thursday evening after Elon Musk, the company&#8217;s owner, said earlier in the day that attempts to restrict the film were a &#8220;mistake&#8221; and would be &#8220;fixed.&#8221;
Daily Wire co-CEO Jeremy Boreing revealed in a lengthy Twitter thread Thursday morning that Twitter had canceled a deal to stream &#8220;What Is A Woman?&#8221; and &#8220;would no longer provide us any support and would actually limit the reach of the film and label it as ‘hateful conduct’ because of ‘misgendering.’”
“Specifically: In the film, a father refers to his 14-year-old daughter as ‘her,’ and a store owner uses the ‘wrong’ pronoun in a confrontation with a transgender woman,” Boreing said.
Musk responded to Boreing&#8217;s Twitter thread by saying that &#8220;this was a mistake by many people at Twitter,&#8221; adding that the streaming &#8220;is definitely allowed.&#8221;
However, when the entire hour-and-a-half documentary was uploaded to Twitter at 8:13 p.m., the film was quickly restricted and received a label that read: &#8220;Visibility Limited. This Tweet may violate Twitter&#8217;s rules against Hateful Conduct.&#8221;
Ella Irwin, the head of Twitter&#8217;s trust and safety department — the department that appears to have been responsible for the label being applied — <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/twitters-head-of-trust-and-safety-resigns-62c59299" target="_blank" rel="noopener">abruptly resigned</a> from the company Thursday afternoon. Her internal Slack account was quickly deactivated by the company, Fortune <a href="https://fortune.com/2023/06/01/twitter-safety-vp-ella-irwin-internal-slack-deactivated-departed/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
The designation on the film blocked Twitter users from being able to retweet or share the video with their audiences. The video garnered 5,000+ retweets/quote retweets in just a couple of minutes after being published before it was restricted.
&#8220;That was fast,&#8221; Boreing responded. &#8220;Even after ⁦@elonmusk ⁩said Twitter’s threat to label What Is A Woman &#8216;hateful conduct&#8217; and to throttle the film’s reach was a mistake, Twitter did that very thing instantly upon the film going live.&#8221;
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That was fast. Even after ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@elonmusk</a>⁩ said Twitter’s threat to label What Is A Woman “hateful conduct” and to throttle the film’s reach was a mistake, Twitter did that very thing instantly upon the film going live. <a href="https://t.co/RF5K5oHyOq">pic.twitter.com/RF5K5oHyOq</a>
&mdash; Jeremy Boreing (@JeremyDBoreing) <a href="https://twitter.com/JeremyDBoreing/status/1664426462672199682?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 2, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Ben Shapiro — editor emeritus of The Daily Wire and host of “The Ben Shapiro Show,” the top conservative podcast in the nation — also slammed Twitter&#8217;s move to restrict the film.
&#8220;Twitter is now visibility limiting &#8216;What Is A Woman?&#8217; as premiering on Daily Wire&#8217;s Twitter page,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;They did it within seconds of its premiere. It cannot be [retweeted]. Nothing has been fixed.&#8221;
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Twitter is now visibility limiting &quot;What Is A Woman?&quot; as premiering on Daily Wire&#39;s Twitter page. They did it within seconds of its premiere. It cannot be RTed. Nothing has been fixed. <a href="https://t.co/3cP8JxXoBM">pic.twitter.com/3cP8JxXoBM</a>
&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1664425932323532801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 2, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Matt Walsh, star of &#8220;What Is A Woman?”, responded to his documentary being restricted by writing: &#8220;Twitter put the hate speech tag on my embed of the film. There is someone actively and manually suppressing the film at Twitter.&#8221;
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Twitter put the hate speech tag on my embed of the film. There is someone actively and manually suppressing the film at Twitter. <a href="https://t.co/TRPrHyOvcp">pic.twitter.com/TRPrHyOvcp</a>
&mdash; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1664433702913339393?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 2, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The groundbreaking documentary released last summer was watched by people in over 70 countries, even as legacy media reviewers ignored the film and its effect on the culture. Soon after its release, “What is a Woman?” became the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/what-is-a-woman-dominates-as-number-1-most-watched-movie-at-home-97-fresh-audience-score-on-rotten-tomatoes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">most watched</a> movie at home, according to Rotten Tomatoes, which also showed that audiences scored the film with a 97% rating.
The documentary arguably sparked a movement to protect children from the harmful effects of sex change procedures. Following the film’s release and Walsh’s subsequent rallies and events speaking out about the potentially tragic consequences of so-called “gender-affirming” care, at least a dozen states have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nebraska-becomes-18th-state-to-ban-transgender-surgeries-on-children" target="_blank" rel="noopener">banned</a> transgender surgeries on minors.
The Daily Wire’s Zach Jewell contributed to this report.

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Twitter Restricts Launch Of ‘What Is A Woman?’; Top Company Official Resigns

Twitter Restricts Launch Of 'What Is A Woman?'; Top Company Official Resigns

Censorship

Matt Walsh

The Daily Wire will celebrate the one-year anniversary of Matt Walsh’s groundbreaking documentary “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/what-is-a-woman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">What is a Woman?</a>” Thursday night by streaming the film for free on Twitter.
The stream will begin on The Daily Wire’s <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter page</a> at 8:00 p.m. ET, and all Daily Wire hosts will go live on Twitter Spaces at 7:30 p.m. ET. The “What is a Woman?” stream caused controversy between the conservative media company and the social media platform Thursday morning after Daily Wire co-CEO Jeremy Boreing revealed that Twitter canceled a deal with The Daily Wire to stream the film due to “misgendering.”
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/JeremyDBoreing?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JeremyDBoreing</a> will be leading a conversation about this tonight at 7:30pm ET. <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MattWalshBlog</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@benshapiro</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jordanbpeterson</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RealCandaceO</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@michaeljknowles</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/andrewklavan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@andrewklavan</a> 
Set a reminder here: <a href="https://t.co/BsCnJTEj2I">https://t.co/BsCnJTEj2I</a>
&mdash; Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1664269773637840896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 1, 2023</a></blockquote>
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“What is a Woman” became the most-watched movie at home shortly after its release on June 1, 2022, as people from all over the world tuned in to see Walsh ask his simple yet monumental question. 
In the film, Walsh journeys across America and the world, questioning the logic behind the radical gender ideology movement that has negatively affected women and children. The documentary arguably sparked a movement to protect children from the harmful effects of sex change procedures. Following the film’s release and Walsh’s subsequent rallies and events speaking out about the tragic consequences of so-called “gender-affirming” care, at least a dozen states have banned transgender surgeries on minors.
“I sought out experts in every field in the gender theory world — doctors, therapists, psychiatrists, psychologists, politicians, activists, and transgender people themselves — and I put the question to them directly,” Walsh <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/teaser-clip-drops-for-matt-walshs-new-documentary-what-is-a-woman">said</a> before the documentary’s release. “I found — and you’ll see in the film — their arguments collapsed not with hammer blows or a hard push, but with simple questions, because the core of gender ideology is hollow.”
Elon Musk, who took over Twitter last October, responded to his company&#8217;s apparent censorship of the documentary, saying that the decision to cancel the “What is a Woman?” stream was “a mistake made by many people at Twitter” and that “misgendering” is not banned on the platform.
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“It is definitely allowed,” he said. “Whether or not you agree with using someone’s preferred pronouns, not doing so is at most rude and certainly breaks no laws.”
Walsh still questions whether the stream of “What is a Woman?” will face any issues after Twitter censored one of his <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1664263579216773120">tweets</a> that featured a video clip from the film. Twitter censored the clip tweeted by Walsh by disabling comments, retweets, and likes because according to the social media platform, the tweet “may violate … rules against Hateful Conduct.”
As of this publication, Walsh’s post was still being limited by the social media platform.
“What Is A Woman streams tonight at 8 ET. Elon says that the decision to label the film hate speech was a &#8216;mistake by many people at Twitter.&#8217; But currently the clips from the film are still flagged and censored and all trends related to What Is A Woman are still being suppressed,” Walsh <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1664357179434971137">said</a>. “We will see what happens tonight.”

Daily Wire Celebrates One-Year Anniversary Of ‘What Is A Woman?’

Daily Wire Celebrates One-Year Anniversary Of 'What Is A Woman'

Social Issues

Twitter owner Elon Musk responded on Thursday to news that the company had reportedly canceled a deal with The Daily Wire to stream &#8220;What Is A Woman?&#8221; and said that it was &#8220;a mistake by many people at Twitter.&#8221;
After Elon Musk’s takeover of the social media platform and his promised dedication to free speech, The Daily Wire sought a deal to stream Matt Walsh’s “What is a Woman?” on Twitter for the documentary’s one-year anniversary. Initially, Twitter responded enthusiastically to the idea, even offering The Daily Wire a package to purchase a whole page for Twitter users to view the film, Daily Wire co-CEO Jeremy Boreing said. That changed after the platform asked to view a screening of the film.
“After reviewing the film, though, Twitter let us know that not only could we no longer purchase the package they offered, they would no longer provide us any support and would actually limit the reach of the film and label it as ‘hateful conduct’ because of ‘misgendering,’” Boreing said in a tweet thread explaining Twitter’s reversal.
“Specifically: In the film, a father refers to his 14-year-old daughter as ‘her,’ and a store owner uses the ‘wrong’ pronoun in a confrontation with a transgender woman,” Boreing continued.
Musk, who is currently outside the U.S. on a business trip, responded to Boreing: &#8220;This was a mistake by many people at Twitter.&#8221;
&#8220;It is definitely allowed,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Whether or not you agree with using someone’s preferred pronouns, not doing so is at most rude and certainly breaks no laws.&#8221;
&#8220;I should note that I do personally use someone’s preferred pronouns, just as I use someone’s preferred name, simply from the standpoint of good manners,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;However, for the same reason, I object to rude behavior, ostracism or threats of violence if the wrong pronoun or name is used.&#8221;
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This was a mistake by many people at Twitter. It is definitely allowed. 
Whether or not you agree with using someone’s preferred pronouns, not doing so is at most rude and certainly breaks no laws. 
I should note that I do personally use someone’s preferred pronouns, just as I…
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1664324213023424531?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 1, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I appreciate the reply,&#8221; Boreing responded to Musk. &#8220;We posted the two clips flagged by Twitter and they were indeed labeled &#8216;hateful conduct&#8217; and the share functions were disabled on the posts.&#8221;
&#8220;We are trying to reach your team to determine what this means for those posts, whether or not our event tonight will be allowed to proceed unencumbered, and whether or not we will be allowed to purchase the live event page and reach block as originally agreed,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I appreciate your view of polite behavior, but our business is to debate public policy and philosophy. As such, we have an obligation to speak in ways consistent with our position.&#8221;
&#8220;Our hope is that Twitter remains a place where we are free to do so,&#8221; he concluded.
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I appreciate the reply. We posted the two clips flagged by Twitter and they were indeed labeled “hateful conduct” and the share functions were disabled on the posts. 
We are trying to reach your team to determine what this means for those posts, whether or not our event tonight…
&mdash; Jeremy Boreing (@JeremyDBoreing) <a href="https://twitter.com/JeremyDBoreing/status/1664332765226057730?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 1, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The groundbreaking documentary released last summer was watched by people in over 70 countries, even as legacy media reviewers ignored the film and its effect on the culture. Soon after its release, “What is a Woman?” became the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/what-is-a-woman-dominates-as-number-1-most-watched-movie-at-home-97-fresh-audience-score-on-rotten-tomatoes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">most watched</a> movie at home, according to Rotten Tomatoes, which also showed that audiences scored the film with a 97% rating.
The documentary arguably sparked a movement to protect children from the harmful effects of sex change procedures. Following the film’s release and Walsh’s subsequent rallies and events speaking out about the tragic consequences of so-called “gender-affirming” care, at least a dozen states have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nebraska-becomes-18th-state-to-ban-transgender-surgeries-on-children" target="_blank" rel="noopener">banned</a> transgender surgeries on minors.
The Daily Wire&#8217;s Zach Jewell contributed to this report

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Elon Musk Responds To Twitter Canceling Deal To Stream ‘What Is A Woman?’: ‘A Mistake By Many People At Twitter’

Daily Wire

Media

Daily Wire co-CEO Jeremy Boreing revealed Thursday that Twitter canceled a deal with the conservative media company to stream its hit documentary “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/what-is-a-woman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">What is a Woman?</a>” for free on the social media platform due to “misgendering.” 
After Elon Musk’s takeover of the social media platform and his promised dedication to free speech, The Daily Wire sought a deal to stream Matt Walsh’s “What is a Woman?” on Twitter for the documentary’s one-year anniversary. Initially, Twitter responded enthusiastically to the idea, even offering The Daily Wire a package to purchase a whole page for Twitter users to view the film, Boreing said. That changed after the platform asked to view a screening of the film. 
“After reviewing the film, though, Twitter let us know that not only could we no longer purchase the package they offered, they would no longer provide us any support and would actually limit the reach of the film and label it as &#8216;hateful conduct&#8217; because of &#8216;misgendering.&#8217;” Boreing said in a Tweet thread explaining Twitter’s reversal. 
“Specifically: In the film, a father refers to his 14-year-old daughter as ‘her,’ and a store owner uses the ‘wrong’ pronoun in a confrontation with a transgender woman,” Boreing continued. 
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Twitter canceled a deal with <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realdailywire</a> to premiere What is a Woman? for free on the platform because of two instances of “misgendering.” 
I’m not kidding.
Here&#39;s what happened:🧵1/16
&mdash; Jeremy Boreing (@JeremyDBoreing) <a href="https://twitter.com/JeremyDBoreing/status/1664255321630552065?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 1, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The groundbreaking documentary released last summer was watched by people in over 70 countries, even as legacy media reviewers ignored the film and its effect on the culture. Soon after its release, “What is a Woman?” became the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/what-is-a-woman-dominates-as-number-1-most-watched-movie-at-home-97-fresh-audience-score-on-rotten-tomatoes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">most-watched</a> movie at home, according to Rotten Tomatoes, which also showed that audiences scored the film with a 97% rating. 
The documentary arguably sparked a movement to protect children from the harmful effects of sex change procedures. Following the film’s release and Walsh’s subsequent rallies and events speaking out about the tragic consequences of so-called “gender-affirming” care, at least a dozen states have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nebraska-becomes-18th-state-to-ban-transgender-surgeries-on-children" target="_blank" rel="noopener">banned</a> transgender surgeries on minors. 
Twitter, which was taken over by Musk last October, seemed to be the perfect place to celebrate the film’s success and give more people an opportunity to view it for free. Last week, The Daily Wire began streaming all of its shows on the platform after censorship campaigns from YouTube and TikTok targeted Daily Wire hosts. But despite the recent changes at Twitter, Boreing said the company fell back into its old ways when pressed on its reason for labeling “What is a Woman?” as “hateful conduct.” 
“We reminded Twitter they removed ‘misgendering’ from their policy, that the term ‘misgendering’ itself is misleading, and that enforcing such a policy places them on the side of the most radical elements in society — the side most opposed to their commitment to free speech,” the Daily Wire co-CEO tweeted. “Twitter clarified they only removed ‘misgendering’ from their policy because they didn’t need to be that specific, but that they still consider ‘misgendering’ abuse and harassment. They gave us the opportunity to edit the film to comply. We declined.”
“When we asked how much they would limit the visibility if we posted the film anyway, Twitter replied that our own followers would not be able to see it in their feeds. This, they said, is part of their ‘speech not reach’ policy.”
Musk, who received constant criticism from the Left after buying Twitter, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/musk-in-talks-to-name-nbcuniversal-executive-and-top-world-economic-forum-official-as-new-twitter-ceo-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">named Linda Yaccarino</a>, an NBC Universal executive and World Economic Forum official as the company’s new CEO earlier this month, a move that worried conservatives who had high hopes Twitter would offer both sides on the political spectrum a fair medium for debate.
“[Musk] is not beholden to conservatives. He has the right to run his business as he sees fit. But if Twitter is going to throttle one side of one of the most important debates facing society, it cannot claim to champion free speech,” Boreing said. “I hope [Musk] will reconsider this terrible policy.” 
The Daily Wire will still stream “What is a Woman?” at 8:00 p.m. ET Thursday on its <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter page</a>, and a Daily Wire Twitter space will start 30 minutes before the film begins.

Twitter/What is a Woman

Twitter Cancels Deal With The Daily Wire To Stream ‘What Is A Woman?’ Over ‘Misgendering,’ Will Label Film ‘Hateful Conduct’ 

Jeremy Boreing

Twitter owner <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/elon-musk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elon Musk</a> revealed during an interview this week that he eventually wants Twitter to evolve into a platform that provides a wide range of services, including financial services.
Musk made the remarks during an interview with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/babylon-bee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Babylon Bee</a> published on Twitter on Wednesday. Twitter’s previous censorship of The Babylon Bee was one of the company&#8217;s actions that sparked Musk’s interest in buying Twitter.
Musk said it was important for the company to eventually start getting into financial services because it&#8217;s a vital aspect of freedom.
&#8220;That&#8217;s actually an important part of freedom as well,&#8221; he said. &#8220;If those doing, you know, the money exchange or running the money system, can stop people who disagree with them politically, that&#8217;s a huge problem. I mean, so that happened in Canada with the trucker strike, where people were being like, basically, financially ostracized from society for just being a peaceful strike.&#8221;
&#8220;And you know, I saw some strange things with PayPal, where they were like, suspending accounts for what appeared to be political reasons,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Money is a form of information. So I think it&#8217;s important that we have within the bounds of the law, that we enable freedom of flow of money, which is full of information.&#8221;
Musk said that he eventually wants the platform to evolve into a &#8220;full array of financial services, full array of communications, encrypted communications, voice, video, everything.&#8221;
He said that the company will need to be rebranded as &#8220;X.”
&#8220;In general, the goal here is like, let&#8217;s just make sure we take the actions that strengthen the pillars of democracy and further civilization,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You know, we want to have a future we can look forward to, that we&#8217;re excited about the future, not one we&#8217;re sad about it. Civilization is more fragile than people realize. If you study the rise and fall of civilizations in history, you know, when they&#8217;re at the top, then they would think they&#8217;re gonna fall.&#8221;
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&mdash; The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1664030613710704642?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 31, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Twitter owner <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/elon-musk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elon Musk</a> revealed during an interview this week that engineers at the social media company recently discovered a line of code more than decade old that would suppress tweets if they contained specific words.
Musk made the remarks during an interview with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/babylon-bee">The Babylon Bee</a> published on Twitter on Wednesday. Twitter’s previous censorship of The Babylon Bee was one of the company&#8217;s actions that sparked Musk’s interest in buying Twitter.
&#8220;One of the craziest things you did when you took over Twitter was start releasing the Twitter files,&#8221; Kyle Mann, editor-in-chief of The Babylon Bee, said to Musk. &#8220;Who takes over a company and then says, &#8216;Look, how horrible all this stuff is that&#8217;s going on&#8217;?”
&#8220;If we&#8217;re not going to expose the things that were done wrong, why should people believe us in the future? That&#8217;s why we&#8217;re trying to be as transparent as possible,&#8221; Musk responded. &#8220;Don&#8217;t take my word for it – literally look at the algorithm, you should be able to recreate the results that you see on Twitter using that algorithm.&#8221;
&#8220;So we&#8217;re trying to make sure that everything is brought to light, not just so there&#8217;s no hidden layers or anything,&#8221; Musk added. &#8220;We just discovered last week some hidden layer of censorship that was written in 2012.&#8221;
Musk said that while &#8220;&#8216;censorship&#8217; is probably the wrong word&#8221; to describe the code, Twitter had a list of words it would use to evaluate Tweets.
&#8220;If you put &#8216;suck&#8217; in a tweet, then it does not get amplified on the platform,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;And that was literally code from like 2012. We found this relic of code last week.&#8221;
Musk confirmed the single line of code was being applied to all tweets, noting that there were about a thousand words on the list that, if used in a tweet, would suppress that tweet.
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<a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@elonmusk</a> reveals he’s still uncovering hidden censorship layers in Twitter’s code. <a href="https://t.co/b4B1oBiSZU">pic.twitter.com/b4B1oBiSZU</a>
&mdash; The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1664033267434283009?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 31, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Elon Musk Reveals Line Of Code Twitter Used To Suppress Tweets If They Contained Certain Words

Twitter owner <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/elon-musk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elon Musk</a> explained during an interview this week why the political Left is no longer funny, saying that it&#8217;s because they no longer believe in things that are true.
Musk made the remarks during an interview with the Babylon Bee that was released in full on Wednesday. The interview came after Twitter&#8217;s previous censorship of the Babylon Bee was one of the things that sparked Musk&#8217;s interest in buying the company.
&#8220;What do you like to watch in terms of comedy and entertainment?&#8221; Kyle Mann, Editor-in-chief of the Babylon Bee, asked Musk. &#8220;I know you share a lot of memes and, you know, obviously comment on some Babylon Bee articles and stuff like that. You commented, you tweeted one time about how wokeness is destroying comedy &#8230; it was, you can&#8217;t write come comedy from a leftist place of wokeness because there&#8217;s no truth claim. I&#8217;m butchering it.&#8221;
&#8220;The essence of a lot of comedy is a revealed truth, like a hidden truth that people understand, intuitively or explicitly,&#8221; Musk responded. &#8220;And there&#8217;s that sort of moment of reveal, you know, kernel of truth, of often unacknowledged truth. And in that unacknowledged truth is the humor.&#8221;
&#8220;So if you&#8217;re premised on a lie, you can no longer be funny, because there&#8217;s no revealed truth,&#8221; he added. &#8220;And this is, you know, why a lot of people on the Left have no sense of humor. They&#8217;re not funny. And if they&#8217;re, if there&#8217;s so many no fly zones, you know, that you have to, you have to avoid all the time then &#8230; there&#8217;s nothing left to make fun about.&#8221;
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<a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@elonmusk</a> on why the Left isn&#39;t funny: &quot;If you&#39;re premised on a lie, you can no longer be funny, because there&#39;s no reveal of truth.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/Kv6g8k4Dr5">pic.twitter.com/Kv6g8k4Dr5</a>
&mdash; The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1664038680175206400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 31, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Elon Musk: The Left Is Not Funny Because They Do Not Believe In Things That Are True

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Far left Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) expressed her disgust in a <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/30/fake-aoc-twitter-account-musk-00099319" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweet</a> on Tuesday over a viral Twitter account that parodies the congresswoman.
The account, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Press Release (parody), <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/05/30/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-warns-twitter-of-parody-account-elevated-by-elon-musk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gained steam</a> after Twitter boss Elon Musk interacted with a tweet it posted which jokingly remarked, “This might be the wine talking, but I’ve got a crush on <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk">@elonmusk</a>,” to which the tech billionaire responded with a fire emoji.
The New York Democrat <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1663599965698916371" target="_blank" rel="noopener">informed</a> her Twitter followers, “FYI there’s a fake account on here impersonating me and going viral. The Twitter CEO has engaged it, boosting visibility. It is releasing false policy statements and gaining spread. I am assessing with my team how to move forward. In the meantime, be careful of what you see.&#8221;
The account was created in 2018 under the same parody theme, enjoying moderate success until the account went offline in May 2019. It began posting again on May 22 this year, with hundreds of tweets in the past week.
Some of the <a href="https://twitter.com/AOCpress" target="_blank" rel="noopener">highlights</a> of parody account include:
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<li>“I’m having my staff report every single tweet that makes fun of me to the DOJ.”</li>
<li>“If @elonmusk wants to have a chance with me, he’ll immediately ban the parody account of me. This is like literally not funny.”</li>
<li>“To make windmills more effective &#8211; when the wind doesn’t blow, we should have helicopters hover over each of them and keep them turning year round.”</li>
<li>“Every time my boyfriend farts &#8211; I make him plant a tree to offset his carbon emissions.”</li>
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The account’s blue checkmark, offered to Twitter Blue subscribers for $8 a month, was temporarily removed on Tuesday for an unknown reason, <a href="https://twitter.com/AOCpress/status/1663644878092263426" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to</a> the account owner. It was <a href="https://twitter.com/AOCpress/status/1663654446541201410" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reinstated</a> several hours later. Many have speculated that the parody account might have violated the Twitter Blue terms of service as being “misleading and deceptive,” but many have pointed out that AOC’s Twitter account has millions more followers and a gray check mark given to all “government or multilateral” representatives.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/elon-musk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elon Musk&#8217;s</a> Neuralink neurotechnology startup company received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday to launch its first in-human clinical study.
&#8220;This is the result of incredible work by the Neuralink team in close collaboration with the FDA and represents an important first step that will one day allow our technology to help many people,&#8221; the company said on <a href="https://twitter.com/neuralink/status/1661857379460468736" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a>.
Musk has touted that over the years, the experimental brain-chip implant could treat neurological disorders such as paralysis and blindness by bridging signals between existing neurons, and would allow humans to save and replay memories, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/neuralink-musk-fda/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a> that &#8220;the future is going to be weird.”
Neuralink received FDA breakthrough designation for its technology three years ago, and Musk repeatedly claimed that human trials would begin immediately. However, the company had its application rejected in early 2022 by the FDA over safety concerns.
Seven current and former FDA employees <a href="https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/neuralink-musk-fda/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Reuters earlier this year that the agency&#8217;s major safety concerns involved &#8220;the device&#8217;s lithium battery; the potential for the implant&#8217;s tiny wires to migrate to other areas of the brain; and questions over whether and how the device can be removed without damaging brain tissue.&#8221;
&#8220;We want to be extremely careful and certain that it will work well before putting a device into a human,&#8221; Musk said, according to Reuters. &#8220;The progress at first, particularly as it applies to humans, will seem perhaps agonizingly slow, but we are doing all of the things to bring it to scale in parallel. So, in theory, progress should be exponential.&#8221;
The approval comes as U.S. lawmakers requested that regulators <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-lawmakers-seek-probe-how-elon-musks-brain-chip-venture-oversees-animal-2023-05-12/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">investigate</a> how the company has conducted animal testing and if those trials were rushed or resulted in failed experiments.
Neuralink has also faced other federal investigations, including from the USDA&#8217;s Inspector General over concerns of violating the Animal Welfare Act and the U.S. Department of Transportation over accusations over the movement of hazardous pathogens.
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Neuralink officials said the recruitment process for its clinical trial has not yet opened.
The FDA has not issued a statement about the approval.
Analysts from Grand View Research expect the worldwide market specific to brain implants to witness a compound annual growth rate above 9% over the next five years. The growing population of senior citizens, who are more likely to suffer from diseases such as Parkinson&#8217;s and Alzheimer&#8217;s, is expected to serve as a key market for the technology.
Deep brain stimulators, which send electrical impulses through electrodes implanted in the brain, currently occupy the largest market share in the broader brain implant space. Increased awareness of the treatment options for neurological movement disorders is expected to accelerate growth in the sector.
Vagus nerve stimulators, which send impulses to the brain through the vagus nerve, are expected to grow at the fastest annualized rate.
News of the advancements in brain-computer interface technology comes as firms rush to develop artificial intelligence solutions.
Paradromics, a <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="http://dailywire.com/topic/silicon-valley" target="_blank" rel="noopener">company</a> seeking to build direct data interfaces with the human <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/brain" target="_blank" rel="noopener">brain</a>, earned a breakthrough device designation last week from the FDA, granting the firm an expedited review process to incorporate the <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="http://dailywire.com/topic/technology" target="_blank" rel="noopener">technology</a> into <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/health-care" target="_blank" rel="noopener">medical</a> applications. The company is seeking to <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.paradromics.com/about" target="_blank" rel="noopener">develop</a> an implanted brain-computer interface, also called a BCI, that can function outside of a laboratory to assist patients who lose the physical ability to speak or type, such as those impacted by spinal cord injuries and strokes.
Earlier this month, researchers at the University of Texas in Austin unveiled a <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/scientists-unveil-ai-that-can-turn-thoughts-into-written-text" target="_blank" rel="noopener">system</a> that uses AI to transform a person&#8217;s brain activity into written words. The &#8220;semantic decoder&#8221; learns how to translate thoughts as the person listens to podcasts, and the system concurrently measures brain activity, then produces text that mirrors the meaning of the individual&#8217;s thoughts. The system does not require implants but is impractical for use outside of a laboratory.
Ben Zeisloft contributed to this report.

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Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) used <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/desantis-releases-campaign-launch-video-twitter-launch-crashes-app-as-servers-strained" target="_blank" rel="noopener">technical difficulties</a> to his advantage, saying that he and billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk &#8220;broke the internet&#8221; when his 2024 presidential campaign announcement quickly overwhelmed Twitter Spaces — but it appears that the pair also broke actor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-actor-john-cusack-goes-full-greta-at-bernie-rally-the-house-is-on-fire" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Cusack</a>.
The &#8220;Grosse Pointe Blank&#8221; star lashed out at Musk and DeSantis in a lengthy tweet claiming that the Twitter owner had teamed up with the Florida governor out of a desire to &#8220;own&#8221; a president.
Cusack began by insinuating that Texas billionaire Harlan Crow had &#8220;bought&#8221; Supreme Court Justice <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harlan-crow-hits-back-slams-yellow-journalism-and-political-hit-job-on-his-friend-clarence-thomas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Clarence Thomas</a>, which he then argued had prompted Musk to act out of jealousy.
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So a nazi collecting Texan freak billionaire who has a garden of evil statues to scare his grandkids &#8211; has bought himself a Supreme Court judge &#8211; and that feisty, white supremisct , ever competitive , not to be out Douche-bagged Egor Mush decides &#8211; I must buy myself a…
&mdash; John Cusack (@johncusack) <a href="https://twitter.com/johncusack/status/1661599137740079105?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 25, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;So a nazi collecting Texan freak billionaire who has a garden of evil statues to scare his grandkids — has bought himself a Supreme Court judge — and that feisty, white supremisct [sic], ever competitive, not to be out Douche-bagged Egor Mush decides — I must buy myself a president!&#8221; Cusack began.
&#8220;And so a whisky balled toad of a man A fascist trump mini me has literally the worst presidential announcement since mid 80s Lyndon LaRouche on a social media platform Mush is obliterating in real time — turning into a Nazi website where children look up pet snuff films — cats in blenders — and he’s so vain and so dumb and so incompetent that he can’t handle the bandwidth for a glorified conference call — and everything I just said is just reportage,&#8221; Cusack continued, concluding with one last jab: &#8220;Oh — and he ‘s supposed to be a genius …&#8221;
Critics were quick to respond, suggesting that Cusack had gone around the bend and saying that his tweet was &#8220;proof that actors are nothing without writers.&#8221;
&#8220;John Cusack has lost his grip on reality. But it does give you insight into the hive-mind of the American Marxist Left. Best of luck with this insanity,&#8221; Mark Meckler <a href="https://twitter.com/MarkMeckler/status/1661759064655683593" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a>.
&#8220;Who broke John Cusack?&#8221; another asked, and actor Dean Cain <a href="https://twitter.com/RealDeanCain/status/1661766008250728449" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shared</a> the rambling tweet &#8220;for posterity.&#8221;
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The &#8220;Say Anything&#8221; star went on to respond to former Vox writer Aaron Rupar, who noted that Musk had made a number of appearances in a video being promoted by the DeSantis campaign, asserting that Musk had &#8220;bought a governor.&#8221;
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Elon bought a governor &#8211; he’s a kingmaker &#8211; everybody’s got have a billionaire sugar daddy these days They own &#8211; <a href="https://t.co/cWqxI7R965">https://t.co/cWqxI7R965</a>
&mdash; John Cusack (@johncusack) <a href="https://twitter.com/johncusack/status/1661619120859643905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 25, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Elon bought a governor — he’s a kingmaker — everybody’s got have a billionaire sugar daddy these days,&#8221; he said.

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This week, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis decided to announce his 2024 presidential candidacy on Twitter Spaces, the newest feature on Elon Musk’s Twitter. Musk himself would be co-hosting the event, giving DeSantis access to Musk’s 141 million Twitter followers. Only after the Twitter launch will DeSantis begin the more typical campaigning, embarking on a series of campaign events across the nation.
DeSantis’ decision represents yet another blow to the power of the legacy media. Legacy media outlets have been fighting mad that DeSantis sees no purpose in granting them long-form interviews; while he’s happy to answer their questions – and to aggressively confront them – at press conferences, he simply does not trust that legacy media will ask decent questions or edit him fairly. Instead, DeSantis has merely ignored them.
That strategy has resulted in extraordinary hew and cry from our supposed journalistic establishment. This week, Tara Palmeri, senior political correspondent for Puck News, for example, attempted to confront DeSantis with a series of obtuse questions. “I am also Italian American like you,” she said, “if that makes any difference to you at all. Why are you against Disney characters? Which one is your favorite one?” When DeSantis declined to engage, she then called him a “paper tiger – a superficially perfect test-tube Republican candidate who, on closer inspection, is probably not ready for prime time.”
But perhaps primetime is entirely the problem. After all, it is primetime television that made glitz and glamour the center of our presidential politics, gave Donald Trump billions of dollars in free media coverage in 2016, then proceeded to label Trump a threat to the republic and a probable Russian asset. It was primetime television that elevated lies about covid, turning DeSantis into the Enemy of the People while championing disgraced former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo as a hero; that endlessly trumpeted the false narrative that black Americans are at dire daily threat from police, resulting in billions of dollars of damage from race riots; that ceaselessly promotes the notion that boys can be girls and vice versa.
The same legacy media that pushed those lies now pushes a bottomless well of lies about DeSantis as well: that his wife Casey is like Lady Macbeth; that Florida has banned gay Americans by passing a “Don’t Say Gay” bill that, in reality, merely prevents the sexual indoctrination of children; that black Americans are at existential threat in the state; that books are being banned at scale.
Why, precisely, should a politician like DeSantis trust them?
He doesn’t. And now, thanks to the open forum provided by Musk, he doesn’t need to use them to promote his candidacy. He can simply go directly to the people. This is merely an extension of the strategy Donald Trump used so successfully in 2016 when his Twitter account became the most magnetic media property on the planet – only now Trump has relegated himself to Truth Social, even after Musk reinstated his Twitter account. 
In any case, the legacy media – instead of re-examining their own biases and asking just why candidates of the right refuse to appear on their air – have decided to target Musk and Twitter. They suggest that Musk is the newest threat to the republic – after all, if he weren’t, would DeSantis be using Twitter for his launch? 
Conservatives no longer need the approval of reporters at The New York Times. They no longer need to suffer the indignities of skewed grilling at the hands of partisan hacks who work for the alphabet networks. Times have changed. And DeSantis’ Twitter launch is just the latest evidence.

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