Twitter this week censored the accurate fact that “anti-Semitic means nigger.”

However, according to Elon Musk, who is now the total owner of Twitter, he will not censor “any accurate information about anything.”

Twitter will not censor accurate information about anything

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 4, 2022

It’s clearly a bit tongue-in-cheek, as the previous regime at Twitter would have made the same claim as they were doing mass censorship. They were saying that everything they were censoring was inaccurate, while also claiming that they decide what is “accurate.” So that tweet from Musk is a joke about censorship. However, I do not think this is funny.

Musk is whining about how he is losing money because these anti-speech groups are bullying advertisers into boycotting Twitter.

Twitter has had a massive drop in revenue, due to activist groups pressuring advertisers, even though nothing has changed with content moderation and we did everything we could to appease the activists.

Extremely messed up! They’re trying to destroy free speech in America.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 4, 2022

We all know how this works, we’ve been seeing it since 2017: the Anti-Defamation League, an Israeli lobbying group, as well as other Jew groups, go to advertisers and threaten that they will use their influence in the Jewish owned media to smear companies as supporting Nazism and Hitler if they don’t cut ad dollars.

Remember the “Adpocalypse” on YouTube? That started because PewDiePie made a joke about Jews. It ended with basically everyone losing their ads.

Point being: we already know how this works. Elon Musk could have done a cursory search would show how these things work. I do not understand how he did not come in with a plan.

After Musk called out the activists, the activists just started lying and saying the advertisers were making their own decisions. Look at this guy – supposedly a journalist:

Of course not! It's just…it's too simple to attribute this to "activists" when advertisers (who have lots of incentives to be cautious) are given reasons to be cautious. You wield a lot of power, and (IMO) it would be very good for Twitter for you to do it more thoughtfully.

— Hank Green