Right-wing commentator Ben Shapiro apparently followed Elon Musk around like a puppy on his image-rehab tour of Auschwitz to defect attention away from his endorsement of anti-Semitism, and the Media Research Center is there for it (without, of course, mentioning the image-rehab part). Tom Olohan again neglected to mention the rehab-tour part as he spent a Jan. 26 post gushing over more puppy-dog antics from Shapiro over Musk:
X owner Elon Musk touted his social media platform as a glaring and much-targeted news island in an ocean of elite media bias.
During a conversation in Poland with The Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro, Musk made the point that X was not only an exception among social media companies, but an exception among the media in general. Shapiro and Musk agreed that media elites abruptly changed their treatment of Musk after he purchased the social media platform.
“It was amazing to me how much the legacy media walks in lockstep — nobody breaks ranks, so now we have X that breaks ranks and doesn’t just go with whatever the approved narrative is,” Musk said. “I think for many in the public, they don’t quite realize just how much deception is really going on with the media. The biggest deception is the choice of narrative.”
[…]Later on in the interview, Musk and Shapiro contrasted the current situation on X with the censorship regime that preceded Musk’s takeover.
Musk told Shapiro that he generally tries to “increase the so-called Overton window of what can be discussed, what is okay to discuss without being ostracized.” He stated, “Certainly attacking DEI–would have been ostracized before and not anymore. And anything that’s sort of sensitive or that the media ignores, the public can then raise it on the X platform and make that an actual topic of discussion.”
Olohan failed to mention that what comes in through Musk’s increased Overton window includes hate and anti-Semitism, and he certainly wasn’t going to bring up how Musk himself has helped to spread it. He also to failed to mention how Musk has engaged in his own “elite media bias” by regularly suspending the accounts of journalists who criticize him. Instead, Olohan gushed that Musk made transphobia acceptable on Twitter (well, X), dishonestly framing that hate as :”biological reality”:
In response, Shapiro brought up prior the rampant censorship of biological reality, when accounts were censored for referring to men as men and women as women. Since taking over the platform, Musk ended censorship around “misgendering” and “deadnaming” and ended the suspension of satire site The Babylon Bee’s account for the same reason.
Olohan didn’t mention why the gender of other people is anyone else’s business.