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Talk about a hair-on-fire reaction. During her show on Thursday, MSNBC host Katy Tur was frantic in her warning against allowing Elon Musk to purchase Twitter. Her shrill declarations ranged from claiming he was going to charge for access to “real and devastating” plus “life and globe-altering consequences” if Musk obtained the site and allowed free speech to flourish.
Without evidence, Tur began the segment by suggesting if Musk “gets his way” he was going to make Twitter a pay-to-access service. “Will you soon have to pay to use Twitter? If Elon Musk gets his way, maybe. He’s trying to buy the platform,” she declared.
And despite announcing “here’s what he said about it just moments ago,” the soundbite she played had nothing about a subscription model or anything that would indicate Musk would charge to use Twitter.
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