Tone-Deaf MSNBC Pundit Says Musk-Run Twitter Could Be Manipulated For Political Reasons

MSNBC‘s Ari Melber may be the most tone-deaf pundit on the planet, after suggesting an Elon Musk-Run Twitter could be ‘manipulated’ to change political outcomes in favor of Republicans by suppressing stories that might harm a conservative candidate – exactly what Twitter did to Donald Trump during the 2020 US election.

“If you own all of Twitter or Facebook or what have you, you don’t have to explain yourself. You don’t even have to be transparent. You could secretly ban one party’s candidate or all of its candidates, all of its nominees, or you could just secretly turn down the reach of their stuff and turn up the reach of something else,” said Melber. “And the rest of us might not even find out about it until after the election. Elon Musk says this is all to help people because he is just a free speech, philosophically clear, open-minded helper.“

Watch what Jonathan Turley described as almost a clinical (if not comical) example of transference:

Twitter manipulating the reach of stories for political reasons during an election? Nah, that could never happen.pic.twitter.com/fkls7RzDf3

— Jerry Dunleavy (@JerryDunleavy) April 26, 2022

To review, Twitter suppressed perhaps the biggest bombshell in US politics in October 2020 when it banned the New York Post for truthfully reporting on Hunter Biden’s laptop – which contained revelations of shady Biden family business dealings involving Joe Biden.

Yes, agreed.

Thank you. https://t.co/zEGZ3RBEiw

— Emma-Jo Morris (@EmmaJoNYC) April 26, 2022

In addition to damning emails, the laptop also contained a cache of text messages, photos and financial documents which revealed that Joe Biden absolutely lied when he said he had no knowledge of Hunter’s dealings – and may have been collecting 10% of Hunter’s income.

I fear Elon Musk could undermine the ideological diversity, equity and inclusion at Twitter which currently maintains a careful balance of 98.7% for one side. pic.twitter.com/I6JeTuTx9k

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) April 25, 2022

More via The Post Millennial:

Emma Jo Morris, who broke the Hunter Biden laptop story in the Post, shared the Melber clip, saying “@AriMelber that would be crazy. Hey, similar thing actually already happened tho- next time you’re in New York I’ll show you this hard drive I got that belongs to Joe Biden’s corrupt son and that Twitter banned my reporting about 3 weeks before the last presidential election.”

The New York Times, NPR, Politico and the Washington Post, worked to suppress the story, with the Times by publishing an article calling the report “unsubstantiated” in September 2021, then editing the story without publishing a formal correction notice.

Recently, several of those same outlets have recently confirmed the legitimacy of the content of the laptop.

A poll previously released by the Media Research Center showed that 16 percent of voters who were unaware of the Hunter Biden laptop scandal would have switched their minds and not voted for Joe Biden, had they known about it at the time.

According to a December 2020 Rasmussen poll, a majority of Americans believed that the media purposely buried the Hunter Biden laptop story to influence the 2020 election.

After the election, Hunter Biden revealed that he was under a federal investigation. Hunter Biden has been under investigation for failing to pay taxes since Joe Biden was US Vice President. In 2018, the inquiry expanded to investigate how Hunter’s international business dealings connected with President Biden’s political career. There are even reports that Hunter could be under as many as four investigations.

Republicans have repeatedly criticized Twitter over alleged bias against users who politically lean conservative. Sen. Tom Cotton, (R-AR), was locked out of his account after tweeting about the Black Lives Matter riots in June 2020.

During a 2019 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Josh Hawley (R-MO), questioned a Twitter executive regarding the alleged bias.

Twitter admitted to me today that they have protocols they use to determine when speech is offensive. So release the protocols! Make them public. If you aren’t biased, what do you have to hide? pic.twitter.com/rEG94cq2Ly

— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) April 10, 2019

During the testimoney, Twitter Director of Public Policy and Philanthropy Carlos Monje Jr., apologized to Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), for the company’s decision in October 2017 to block one of her campaign ads.

The Libs of Tik Tok account, which highlights videos liberals post of themselves to the social media app TikTok, was locked out for “hateful conduct” by Twitter twice in one week. The company did not explain which tweet contained “hateful conduct.”

Congressional Republicans such as Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-MO), have been censored for tweeting on transgender issues.

Twitter also banned President Donald Trump following the January 6 riot in 2021, but allows well known bigots, antisemites, dictators and users who’ve been accused of murder full access to tweet.