Jon Stewart Fires Back After Elon Musk Calls Him ‘An Extremely Talented Propagandist’ | EUROtoday

Jon Stewart on Thursday invited Elon Musk to affix his “Weekly Show” podcast, however solely after torching the tech billionaire over his rhetoric on alleged voter fraud from undocumented staff — and the supposed hazard they pose to U.S. elections.

Stewart made microscopic mincemeat of Musk throughout this week’s episode.

“Let’s talk about the artist formerly known as Twitter,” Stewart stated. “And this gets us to the crux of the irony. Elon Musk, for a long time and really incredibly consistently and vehemently, has pushed this idea that undocumented noncitizen voting is rampant.”

He added, “He’s tweeted about it, I think 1,300 times or interacted with stories about it. The irony of it all is that this guy’s platform, this guy’s algorithm, which he is in charge of, I see his shit on my feed all the time, I don’t ever interact with it, there’s no reason for it to be there.”

Stewart went on to argue that the billionaire X proprietor has impacted U.S. politics greater than “undocumented noncitizen voting” ever will, arguing that Musk continues the “warping of our democracy” by modifying the X algorithm and utilizing his unparalleled wealth to his profit.

Musk donated greater than 1 / 4 billion {dollars} to assist elect President Donald Trump in 2024 and bought Twitter, now X, for $44 billion in 2022. He has since continuously tinkered with its algorithm, affecting what customers see of their feeds, to many curious outcomes.

The world’s richest man nonetheless took umbrage Thursday after recognizing a clip on his personal platform of Stewart’s feedback, writing, “Jon Stewart is an extremely skilled propagandist disguised as a truth-teller.” Musk later added, “He is a great comedian too.”

The duo went on to commerce some passive-aggressive barbs.

Stewart returned the insult by quoting his put up and writing, “Elon Musk is an extremely skilled propagandist.” He stopped there, suggesting Musk isn’t disguised as something, which the disgruntled billionaire didn’t appear to catch.

“Not as good as you!” Musk replied. “Stop being so humble.”

Musk has lengthy amplified a conspiracy idea about Democrats “importing” undocumented staff to win elections and to exchange white folks. Whether he’ll debate this with somebody apart from a sycophant is unlikely, although Stewart would definitely like to.

He wrote, “Come on the show!! We’ll talk about how self deprecating we both are!!”