Elon Musk threatens to jail '60 Minutes' journalists in latest attempt to up the authoritarian ante

More media threats as Elon Musk shares a chilling post about ‘60 Minutes’

The same man who preaches about the First Amendment and free speech wrote that ‘60 Minutes’ deserves ‘a long prison sentence’

Elon Musk Calls for Jailing Staff at “60 Minutes”

In the Trump administration’s latest attack on the press, Elon Musk has called for the jailing of staff at “60 Minutes” after the CBS program aired a segment criticizing his push to freeze USAID funding. A “60 Minutes” report on Sunday included this line: “The world’s richest man cut off aid for the world’s poorest people.” Musk responded on his social media platform by writing, “60 Minutes are the biggest liars in the world! They deserve a long…

Musk Decries Hitler’s Censorship, Right Before Threatening To Jail Critics

I’m going to go out on a limb here and make a fairly wild suggestion: if you spend years calling yourself a “free speech absolutist” while decrying “government censorship,” maybe one of your first moves after taking over the government shouldn’t be demanding prison sentences for journalists who report things you don’t like. But that’s just me. At this point, the gap between Elon Musk’s free speech rhetoric and his actual behavior has become almo…

Elon Musk threatens to jail '60 Minutes' journalists in latest attempt to up the authoritarian ante

It’s been nearly a month since Elon Musk and Donald Trump took office, and the United States of America has already changed immensely. Our government is getting a major overhaul, but few people are satisfied with the decisions being made at the top. The current direction of the U.S. government is distinctly self-serving, and it’s not the American populace that’s being served. That honor instead goes to Musk, whose several hundred billion dollars…

What Elon Musk’s dangerous war with ‘60 Minutes’ is really all about

Elon Musk has no power to put anyone in jail, but his fantasy about a “long prison sentence” for “60 Minutes” reporters is dangerous nonetheless.

More media threats: Elon Musk shares a chilling post about ‘60 Minutes’

The same man who preaches about the First Amendment and free speech wrote that ‘60 Minutes’ deserves ‘a long prison sentence’