The Media Research Center’s Autumn Johnson kicked off an April 26 post by (dishonestly) portraying Elon Musk as a champion of free speech: Twitter owner Elon Musk is raising the alarm about…
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MRC Still Trying To Cover Up Musk’s Twitter Blue-Check Debacle
The Media Research Center has done its best to bury the debacle that is Elon Musk’s plan to deprecate Twitter’s blue-check symbol from official assurance that an account is authentic to a…
NEW ARTICLE — The MRC Flips Over Elon Musk, Part 10: The Hearings
The Media Research Center touted hearings spearheaded by House Republicans based on the “Twitter files” Elon Musk released — but largely ignored inconvenient facts that showed how the hearings didn’t go well…
MRC Flip-Flops Between Musk-Fluffing, Whining That Right-Wing Hate On Twitter Is Still Monitored
When it wasn’t cheering Elon Musk’s own-the-libs stunt of arbitrarily relabeling NPR’s Twitter feed as “state-affiliated media” (which ended up making things worse when Musk ultimately, and just as arbitrarily, dropped the…
MRC Desperately Puts Pro-Musk Spin On NPR Standing Up To Musk’s Threats
The Media Research Center absolutely loved it when Elon Musk, seeking to generate some desperate clickbait after getting caught not giving right-wing hate and extremism a totally free pass, arbitrarily labeled NPR’s…
MRC Censors Taibbi’s Bad ‘Twitter Files’ Reporting, Split With Musk
Elon Musk stenographer Matt Taibbi had a rough April. First he came out on the losing end (“smoked like a salmon,” as one observer noted) of a contentious interview with MSNBC host…
WND’s Farah Loves Elon Musk’s Right-Wing Turn
WorldNetDaily editor Joseph Farah is particularly excited to see that Elon Musk is turning into a right-wing conspiracy theorist. Farah spent his April 14 column cheering Musk’s hatred for his transgender child:…
MRC Tries To Bury Musk’s Twitter Blue-Check Debacle, Continues Doing PR For Him
When it wasn’t gushing over Elon Musk for arbitrarily putting a false “state-affiliated media” tag on NPR’s Twitter feed, the Media Research Center was doing PR for Musk in other ways as…
NEW ARTICLE — The MRC Flips Over Elon Musk, Part 9: New Year, Same Musk-Fluffing
As the volume of “Twitter files” dwindled, the Media Research Center had to find new ways to promote Elon Musk’s ambitions and massage his ego. Read more >>
Musk PR: MRC Childishly Mocks NPR For Quitting Twitter Over Twitter’s Arbitrary Label Change
We’ve shown how the Media Research Center took the bait when Elon Musk needed a distraction from bad right-wing press and happily embraced how he arbitrarily changed the label of NPR’s Twitter…