Is YouTube Worth Giving Us a Free Traffic? Comment on Musk’s Comment on YouTube and TikTok, Part I: “Free Speech for Creators”
Musk said he did not want to put YouTube out of business but he wondered if it was worth it to give them a whole bunch of free traffic. Maybe not. So at least give creators the option if they would like to put their video on Twitter and earn the same amount as they would, or maybe slightly more, on YouTube or TikTok or whatever the case may be.”
There is no information about a financial arrangement between Carlson and the company. Musk has promoted the idea of a platform for creators with the idea of sharing ad revenue and reviving subscriptions for followers.
“We bring some other things too, which we’ll tell you about. But for now we’re just grateful to be here. Free speech is the main right that you have. Carlson says that there are no others without it.
Tucker Carlson, Fox News, Twitter, and the 2020 Election: A Case Against Fox News and Dominion in the 2020 Defamation Case
Just weeks after leaving Fox News amid the wreckage of its $787 defamation lawsuit settlement with Dominion over lies about the 2020 election, Tucker Carlson has announced his show is coming back soon in “a new version,” but this time, it’s on Twitter.
In a video Carlson accuses the mainstream media of trying to suppress free speech by allowing propaganda outlets, but he insists that there is only one remaining platform that allows it, and that is the micro-blogging service, as opposed to cable news.
The former producer, Abby Grossberg, voluntarily dropped a related case against Fox and Carlson in Delaware on Tuesday; her attorneys released a statement saying she would fold those accusations into her case in New York.
Major advertisers had already abandoned Carlson’s Fox News show, which regularly embraced groundless conspiracy theories and made appeals broadly found to be racist, xenophobic and misogynistic.
Musk appeared on Carlson’s show two nights before the settlement. The two laughed about the comparison Musk made to the New York Times.
Twitter sent its now-standard reply to press requests — a poop emoji — in response to NPR’s emailed request for a comment for this story. Musk did not return emails sent directly to him seeking more information about Carlson’s announcement.
“Twitter is becoming a fringe network which places hyper-partisanship, lies, and hate over application of corporate policies and robust trust and safety,” Benavidez added.
Since his ouster from Fox, Carlson had been wooed openly by numerous conservative and right-wing outlets, including Glenn Beck’s The Blaze, Newsmax, and others.