Elon Musk hit again at The Daily Show host Jon Stewart after he criticized his social media platform X (previously Twitter), labelling the comedian “an extremely skilled propagandist.”
Speaking on the most recent episode of his podcast The Weekly Show, Stewart mentioned that the world’s richest man “has pushed this idea that undocumented, non-citizen voting is rampant, it is sowing the seeds of our destruction, and we cannot do it.
“The irony of it all is [because of] this guy’s platform, this guy’s algorithm, which he is in charge of… he is a far more relevant actor in the warping of our democracy, through his money and his algorithm, than any measure of undocumented, non-citizen voting will ever be.”
As his friends, Platformer editor Casey Newton and Georgetown University analysis professor Renee DiResta, nodded in settlement, Stewart continued: “What his argument – and I think his people’s argument – would be, is: Now that we’re getting uncensored material, now that the First Amendment has primacy, people move to the right because they learn the truth.
“But the truth is that the algorithm incentivizes the misinformation from the right, and he designs it.”
Musk reacted to a clip of the trade on X by saying, “Jon Stewart is an extremely skilled propagandist disguised as a truth-teller.”
The host responded, “Elon Musk is an extremely skilled propagandist,” pointedly main out the latter qualifier.
“Not as good as you! Stop being so humble,” the tech boss answered, prompting Stewart to repeat a suggestion he made final yr to seem on his present.
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-jon-stewart-social-media-b2942507.html