The Media Research Center is of two minds when it comes to Twitter’s Community Notes fact-checking function: great when applied to liberals but “censorship” when applied to conservatives. PLUS: The MRC hates…
Tag: Elon Musk
MRC Deflects Criticism Of Musk A Year After Buying Twitter
The Elon Musk PR team at the Media Research Center continued to take it hard as people point out how Musk has mismanaged Twitter (well, X) as his purchase of the social…
WND Uncritically Promotes Elon Musk’s Discredited COVID Vaccine Video
WorldNetDaily got an assist in promoting COVID vaccine misinformation from none other than Elon Musk, as Bob Unruh touted in a Sept. 26 article: Elon Musk has posted on his social media…
MRC Whines That Musk And Twitter (Well, X) Are Being Criticized
As the first anniversary of Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter (well, X) approached, the bad news and overall pettiness continued to mount: The Media Research Center, of course, cared nothing about this…
MRC Condones Misinfo About Israel-Hamas War On Twitter (Well, X), Shows Double Standard On ‘Censorship’
Twitter (well, X) hasn’t exactly covered itself in glory during the Israel-Hamas war. Given how Elon Musk gutted Twitter’s anti-disinformation teams in the months before the war started, the inevitable happened: Twitter…
NEW ARTICLE — The MRC Flips Over Elon Musk, Part 15: Carrots And Sticks
The Media Research Center is still serving as Elon Musk’s PR agency — while also taking the occasional whack at him for not giving right-wingers total leeway to spread hate and lies….
MRC Cheers Musk Allowing More Hate And Lies On Twitter (Well, X)
There was a lot of unfavorable news regarding Elon Musk and Twitter (well, X) in recent weeks: Rather than tell its readers about any of this — even though it too has…
MRC Whines That Interview Of Pro-Musk Book Author Wasn’t Positive Enough
The Media Research Center’s methods of defending Elon Musk have been a bit extreme lately — for example, calling on racist cartoonist Scott Adams to defend Musk’s attacks on the Anti-Defamation League…
MRC Disgustingly Cheers Harassment Of Ex-Twitter Executive, Is Bizarrely Angry He’s Pointing It Out
Yoel Roth, former head of trust and safety at Twitter, wrote an essay for the New York Times about how Donald Trump and Elon Musk targeted him for harassment — which included…
MRC Tries To Spin Twitter Working With Other Countries To Stop Hate Speech
The Media Research Center is so giddy at the prospect of Elon Musk suing the Anti-Defamation League for pointing out anti-Semitism on Twitter (well, X) — so much so that it called…