Elon Musk will need to have been actually sad along with his current interview with former CNN anchor Don Lemon.
That’s as a result of he canceled a proposed X partnership proper after Lemon interviewed him for his new present, which had been set to debut on the platform March 18.
Lemon made the announcement on X Wednesday and mentioned the cancellation got here “hours after an interview I carried out with him on Friday.”
The interview remains to be the present’s premiere episode, however it can run on YouTube as a substitute.
Tech journalist Kara Swisher is reporting that Musk was miffed when Lemon requested the mogul about his alleged ketamine use.
Lemon said Musk’s response is unusual, contemplating he “publicly inspired me to affix X with a brand new present, saying I’d have his ‘full help,’ and that his ‘digital city sq. is for all.’”
The truth is, Lemon mentioned he agreed to work with Musk after the billionaire promised “important commitments concerning the help X would supply for the present.”
″I made the choice to work with them in a novel partnership that I believed would in the end guarantee that my work could be accessible to the most individuals, within the largest attainable venue.
“I took Elon and his administration crew’s phrase that they, for the primary time, had been involved in working instantly with new and various voices.”
Lemon mentioned Musk didn’t make any restrictions on their interview, so the veteran reporter requested questions that “had been respectful and huge ranging, overlaying the whole lot from SpaceX to the presidential election.”
Though Lemon thought it was “an excellent dialog,” he mentioned, “clearly [Musk] felt in a different way.”
Lemon then threw shade towards Musk, saying, “His dedication to a worldwide city sq. the place all questions might be requested and all concepts might be shared appears to not embody questions of him from folks like me.”
Lemon supplemented the official announcement of his present’s cancellation with a video wherein he appeared nearly joyful concerning the information, and promised to share particulars of what went down with Musk in coming days.
Musk responded to Lemon’s posts by saying he thought Lemon’s method “was mainly simply “CNN, however on social media,” which he mentioned “doesn’t work, as evidenced by the truth that CNN is dying.”
He added that “as a substitute of it being the true Don Lemon, it was actually simply [former CNN chair] Jeff Zucker speaking by Don, so lacked authenticity.”
In a statement posted from X’s company account, the platform mentioned Lemon’s present is “welcome to publish its content material on X, with out censorship, as we imagine in offering a platform for creators to scale their work and join with new communities.
“Nonetheless, like all enterprise, we reserve the suitable to make selections about our enterprise partnerships, and after cautious consideration, X determined to not enter right into a business partnership with the present,” the assertion continued.
Nonetheless, there have been loads of folks on the platform who had ideas. Numerous ideas.
With Elon Musk, it was NEVER about free speech.
“Free speech” was the excuse to permit folks like Trump and Alex Jones again on Twitter.
Now it’s apparent, free speech doesn’t exist right here. In any respect.
Appears Don Lemon didn’t kiss the ring passionately sufficient.pic.twitter.com/tvnxIFvQdG— BigBlueWaveUSA®
(@BigBlueWaveUSA) March 13, 2024
