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Elon Musk Claims Risk Of His Assassination Is 'Quite Significant' by OLAADEGBU(m): 10:43pm On Dec 04, 2022
Elon Musk claims risk of his assassination is 'quite significant'
By Natalie Brown, News.com.au
December 4, 2022 2:45pm Updated
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY:
News.com.au

Elon Musk has claimed the risk of his assassination is "quite significant."

In a wide-ranging, two-hour Q&A audio chat on Twitter Spaces, the social media platform's CEO told listeners he "definitely" would not “be doing any open-air car parades, let me put it that way."

"Frankly the risk of something bad happening to me, or even literally being shot, is quite significant," he said.

"It's not that hard to kill somebody if you wanted to, so hopefully they don't, and fate smiles upon the situation with me and it does not happen … There's definitely some risk there."


Twitter CEO Elon Musk believes there’s a chance he could be assassinated.
AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File


The Tesla CEO and world's richest man – a self-proclaimed "free speech absolutist" – added that "at the end of the day, we just want to have a future where we're not oppressed."

"[Where] our speech is not suppressed, and we can say what we want to say without fear of reprisals," he declared.

"As long as you're not really causing harm to somebody else, then you should be allowed to say what you want."

This attitude has been clear since Musk's takeover of Twitter last month.

He has reinstated previously suspended accounts including former President Donald Trump, and announced he would grant a "general amnesty" to everyone who had been booted off that had not broken the law or engaged in spam.

Musk also ended Twitter's policy against Covid-19 misinformation, and dismantled the company's trust and safety teams amid mass lay-offs.

Much of Musk's conversation on Twitter Spaces, which took place on Saturday night local time, was devoted to the so-called 'Twitter Files', a selection of internal documents released by journalist Matt Taibbi on Friday.

Taibbi's thread included files that showed Joe Biden's team instructing Twitter employees to remove specific political content in October 2020, just weeks before he was elected US President.

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"If Twitter is doing one team's bidding before an election shutting down dissenting voices on a pivotal election, that is the definition of election interference," Musk, who has been highly critical of the platform's prior management, said.

"Frankly, Twitter was acting like an arm of the Democratic National Committee, it was absurd."

Musk said he had given Taibbi, as well as journalist Bari Weiss, "unfettered access" to old internal documents – teasing more would be released and dubbing them the Twitter Files 'episode two'.

"This is not a North Korea tour guide situation, you get to go anywhere you want, whenever you want, however you want," he said.

"I'm not controlling the narrative. It's just obvious there's been a lot of control of information, suppression of information, including things that affected elections, and that just all need to be … you just want to have the stuff out there."

Musk acknowledged during the Twitter Spaces chat, however, that the Twitter Files release had included some missteps, including "a few cases where I think we should have excluded some email addresses."

"Publicly posting the names and identities of frontline employees involved in content moderation puts them in harm’s way and is a fundamentally unacceptable thing to do," former Twitter Trust and Safety chief Yoel Roth, who was among the employees named in Taibbi's tweets, said in a social media post.

"The idea here is to come clean on everything that has happened in the past in order to build public trust for the future," Musk said of the errors.

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Elon Musk has claimed the risk of his assassination is "quite significant."

Re: Elon Musk Claims Risk Of His Assassination Is 'Quite Significant' by Thortp(m): 10:50pm On Dec 04, 2022
Hmmm
Re: Elon Musk Claims Risk Of His Assassination Is 'Quite Significant' by tydi(m): 12:04am On Dec 05, 2022
Donald Trump for president 2024
To make America Great again!
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I can't wait for Twitter flies episode two
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Re: Elon Musk Claims Risk Of His Assassination Is 'Quite Significant' by OLAADEGBU(m): 9:54am On Dec 05, 2022
Elon Musk Claims His Risk Of His Assassination Is 'Quite Significant'

'Will definitely not be doing any open-air car parade'

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Re: Elon Musk Claims Risk Of His Assassination Is 'Quite Significant' by OLAADEGBU(m): 1:00pm On Dec 05, 2022
Evidence of Collusion
Tom Stiglich December 4, 2022


Without Elon Musk buying Twitter, this evidence would never have seen the light of day.

Cartoon by Tom Stiglich, Commentary by R. Mitchell, Editor-in-Chief
Re: Elon Musk Claims Risk Of His Assassination Is 'Quite Significant' by OLAADEGBU(m): 1:41pm On Dec 05, 2022
Musk delivers PROOF Twitter censored Biden laptop story to rig election
By Mike Huckabee
December 4, 2022

"Big Tech censorship is a critical tool of the 'national security state.' Whenever anyone tries to do anything about it, these former people from the CIA...and the Pentagon and the rest jump up and say, 'We cannot allow you to restore free speech; this form of censorship is a crucial weapon.’ And so they're completely intertwined and integrated, and we're seeing that in the role that Jim Baker, a former U.S. security state lawyer, who became a Twitter lawyer, played in the censorship right before the election."

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Re: Elon Musk Claims Risk Of His Assassination Is 'Quite Significant' by OLAADEGBU(m): 3:41am On Dec 08, 2022
Sunlight is the Best Disinfectant
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Re: Elon Musk Claims Risk Of His Assassination Is 'Quite Significant' by OLAADEGBU(m): 11:35am On Dec 09, 2022
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Re: Elon Musk Claims Risk Of His Assassination Is 'Quite Significant' by OLAADEGBU(m): 8:34pm On Dec 13, 2022
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