Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) revealed Monday night that he’s been talking to Twitter owner Elon Musk about the social media company’s plans for the future — calling their conversation part of the company’s “roadmap.” .
At the same time, Cruz managed to come up with his standard list of criticisms of Democrats, “big tech,” and others accused of doing some sort of “collusion.”
appeared on HannityTexas Republicans have been asked to give context to letter he sent earlier in the day to Twitter, as well as Meta, Google and TikTok, announcing an investigation into these platforms’ content recommendation systems.
“I have conducted a full investigation into ‘big tech’ censorship, where we’ll take the ‘Twitter Files’…[and] what Elon Musk has gone public and used it as a roadmap to pursue… all of the Big Tech is trying to silence conservatives,” said Cruz, a senior member of the Senate Commerce Committee. know. “And we will bring accountability, we will bring transparency, and we will unravel and expose their collusion with deep state Democrats to try to silence them. the mouth of the conservatives.”
Despite Cruz’s oath, the House hearings on the matter have so far struck a chord with those seeking to demonstrate the “censorship” of conservative voices, with Former Twitter official testified last week that Republicans and Donald Trump himself petitioned the company to remove the unwanted tweets.
Although Musk’s “Twitter Profile” instead focuses on Twitter communications by Democrats and government agencies, Hannity asserted Monday that the profiles did indeed expose displayed “bad” stuff at the company before Musk bought it last fall.
Cruz later hailed the sale as a “damn big deal”. He claims it shows that Musk, who has lashed out against the “leftist agenda”” push voters towards GOPAnd Reporter is temporarily banned who criticized him, pledging free speech.
“Last week, I spent over half an hour on the phone with Elon talking to him about what he found on Twitter and using that as a road map,” Cruz said. “And I have to tell you that the people at Google, YouTube, Facebook and Tik Tok – they are losing their minds because a member of the club is not allowed to admit it,” he added, referring to the allegation. forced “collusion”.
