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Fox News’ Loss of Tucker Carlson Could Be Twitter’s Gain
Tucker Carlson has been trending on Twitter this week, after being let go by Fox News on Monday.
If things go the way Elon Musk is planning, Carlson’s show would be trending every day on Twitter, because he has the potential to be the first megastar of Twitter’s new platform.
Carlson averaged about 3 million viewers per episode of “Tucker Carlson Tonight” weeknights on Fox News. Over the past year, the show’s lowest rating was 2 million viewers. The highest was 6 million.
The show’s popularity has not dwindled over the past year, and luckily for Carlson, he was ousted in his prime.
Many Twitter users were speculating that Carlson will want to go to a platform that won’t censor him, and articles have speculated that Carlson was being censored by Fox News.
Even Musk himself commented on Carlson’s ability to move to the platform.
Musk added to the speculation by stating that he wouldn’t apply any censorship unless it was required by law.
At the suggestion that Twitter should hire Carlson, Musk replied, “[W]e don’t hire anyone, but simply enable content creators to prosper on this platform without applying censorship that goes beyond the law.”
COMMENTARY BY
Portrait of Roman Jankowski
Roman Jankowski
Roman Jankowski is an investigative columnist for The Daily Signal and a senior investigative counsel for the Oversight Project at The Heritage Foundation, where his focus is exposing what's wrong with the Biden administration's progressive policies. He has over 13 years of experience with the Freedom of Information Act, both in the private sector and with five federal agencies.
Tucker Carlson has been trending on Twitter this week, after being let go by Fox News on Monday.
If things go the way Elon Musk is planning, Carlson’s show would be trending every day on Twitter, because he has the potential to be the first megastar of Twitter’s new platform.
Carlson averaged about 3 million viewers per episode of “Tucker Carlson Tonight” weeknights on Fox News. Over the past year, the show’s lowest rating was 2 million viewers. The highest was 6 million.
The show’s popularity has not dwindled over the past year, and luckily for Carlson, he was ousted in his prime.
Many Twitter users were speculating that Carlson will want to go to a platform that won’t censor him, and articles have speculated that Carlson was being censored by Fox News.
Even Musk himself commented on Carlson’s ability to move to the platform.
Musk added to the speculation by stating that he wouldn’t apply any censorship unless it was required by law.
At the suggestion that Twitter should hire Carlson, Musk replied, “[W]e don’t hire anyone, but simply enable content creators to prosper on this platform without applying censorship that goes beyond the law.”
In the same Twitter thread, someone asked, “Elon, do you believe that Twitter creators will be able to make as much as YouTube creators in the future?” Musk answered, “More.”
Regarding Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act, social media platform companies are granted broad “safe harbor” protections against legal liability for any content users post on their platforms. Twitter currently falls under Section 230 and is not liable for any content posted by users. So, there would be no reason to censor Carlson’s content for reasons of “liability.”
Musk said that content creators will be able to get up to 92% of their earnings from content subscriptions on Twitter, and that Twitter wasn’t planning on taking any portion of profits for that entire year. ......
https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/04/26/case-tucker-carlsons-show-move-twitter/
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Sounds like Carlson will land on Twitter. The news said he is taking some of his team from Fox with him. This is going to get interesting.
Tucker Carlson has been trending on Twitter this week, after being let go by Fox News on Monday.
If things go the way Elon Musk is planning, Carlson’s show would be trending every day on Twitter, because he has the potential to be the first megastar of Twitter’s new platform.
Carlson averaged about 3 million viewers per episode of “Tucker Carlson Tonight” weeknights on Fox News. Over the past year, the show’s lowest rating was 2 million viewers. The highest was 6 million.
The show’s popularity has not dwindled over the past year, and luckily for Carlson, he was ousted in his prime.
Many Twitter users were speculating that Carlson will want to go to a platform that won’t censor him, and articles have speculated that Carlson was being censored by Fox News.
Even Musk himself commented on Carlson’s ability to move to the platform.
Musk added to the speculation by stating that he wouldn’t apply any censorship unless it was required by law.
At the suggestion that Twitter should hire Carlson, Musk replied, “[W]e don’t hire anyone, but simply enable content creators to prosper on this platform without applying censorship that goes beyond the law.”
COMMENTARY BY
Portrait of Roman Jankowski
Roman Jankowski
Roman Jankowski is an investigative columnist for The Daily Signal and a senior investigative counsel for the Oversight Project at The Heritage Foundation, where his focus is exposing what's wrong with the Biden administration's progressive policies. He has over 13 years of experience with the Freedom of Information Act, both in the private sector and with five federal agencies.
Tucker Carlson has been trending on Twitter this week, after being let go by Fox News on Monday.
If things go the way Elon Musk is planning, Carlson’s show would be trending every day on Twitter, because he has the potential to be the first megastar of Twitter’s new platform.
Carlson averaged about 3 million viewers per episode of “Tucker Carlson Tonight” weeknights on Fox News. Over the past year, the show’s lowest rating was 2 million viewers. The highest was 6 million.
The show’s popularity has not dwindled over the past year, and luckily for Carlson, he was ousted in his prime.
Many Twitter users were speculating that Carlson will want to go to a platform that won’t censor him, and articles have speculated that Carlson was being censored by Fox News.
Even Musk himself commented on Carlson’s ability to move to the platform.
Musk added to the speculation by stating that he wouldn’t apply any censorship unless it was required by law.
At the suggestion that Twitter should hire Carlson, Musk replied, “[W]e don’t hire anyone, but simply enable content creators to prosper on this platform without applying censorship that goes beyond the law.”
In the same Twitter thread, someone asked, “Elon, do you believe that Twitter creators will be able to make as much as YouTube creators in the future?” Musk answered, “More.”
Regarding Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act, social media platform companies are granted broad “safe harbor” protections against legal liability for any content users post on their platforms. Twitter currently falls under Section 230 and is not liable for any content posted by users. So, there would be no reason to censor Carlson’s content for reasons of “liability.”
Musk said that content creators will be able to get up to 92% of their earnings from content subscriptions on Twitter, and that Twitter wasn’t planning on taking any portion of profits for that entire year. ......
https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/04/26/case-tucker-carlsons-show-move-twitter/
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Sounds like Carlson will land on Twitter. The news said he is taking some of his team from Fox with him. This is going to get interesting.
