Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) revealed Monday evening that he spoke with Twitter proprietor Elon Musk concerning the social media firm’s plan for the longer term—calling their dialog a part of the corporate’s “street map.”
On the identical time, Cruz managed to put out his normal menu of criticisms of Democrats, “large tech” and others who had allegedly dedicated some type of “collusion.”
Showing on Hannity, the Texas Republican was requested to provide context to a letter he despatched earlier within the day to Twitter, in addition to Meta, Google and TikTok, saying the investigation into these platforms’ content material advice methods.
“I launched a full investigation into ‘large tech’ censorship, the place we're going to take the ‘Twitter Recordsdata’...[and] what Elon Musk has made public and use that as a street map to go after…all of Large Tech that's making an attempt to silence conservatives,” stated Cruz, a rating member of the Senate Commerce Committee. “And we’re going to convey accountability, we’re going to convey transparency, and we’re going to shine a lightweight and expose their collusion with Democrats within the deep state to attempt to silence conservatives.”
Regardless of Cruz’s vow, Home hearings on the matter have up to now been underwhelming for these looking for to show “censorship” of conservative voices, with former Twitter officers testifying final week that Republicans and Donald Trump himself petitioned the corporate to take away undesirable tweets.
Though Musk’s “Twitter Recordsdata” as an alternative targeted on communications to Twitter by Democrats and authorities companies, Hannity insisted Monday that the information actually did expose how “corrupt” issues had been on the firm earlier than Musk bought it final fall.
Cruz then praised the purchase as a “large rattling deal.” He claimed it reveals that Musk, who has lashed out in opposition to the “leftist agenda,” pushed voters towards the GOP, and briefly banned reporters who cowl him critically, is dedicated to free speech.
“Final week I spent over a half hour on the telephone with Elon speaking to him about what he's discovering at Twitter and utilizing that as a street map,” Cruz stated. “And I've to inform you that the oldsters at Google and YouTube and Fb and Tik Tok — they're shedding their minds as a result of a member of the membership wasn’t purported to admit it,” he added, referring to alleged “collusion.”