Elon Musk questions Twitter boycott call from groups supported by Soros, Clinton operatives

Elon Musk is demanding to know who was behind a letter signed by more than two dozen liberal organisations urging advertisers to boycott Twitter if he completes his takeover.

If Musk takes over Twitter, left-leaning NGOs, including billionaire financier George Soros and former Clinton operatives, as well as the European Union and the Canadian government, are calling for a boycott.

“Who funds these organizations that want to control your access to information? Let’s investigate …,” Elon Musk tweeted on Tuesday.

He added that “Sunlight is the best disinfectant.”

The letter, which was signed by 26 organizations, claimed that “Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter will further toxify our information ecosystem and be a direct threat to public safety, especially among those already most vulnerable and marginalized.”

Elon Musk taking control of Twitter means advertising on the platform “risks association with a platform amplifying hate, extremism, health misinformation, and conspiracy theorists,” the letter said.

“Under Musk’s management, Twitter risks becoming a cesspool of misinformation, with your brand attached, polluting our information ecosystem in a time where trust in institutions and news media is already at an all-time low,” the letter added.

“Your ad dollars can either fund Musk’s vanity project or hold him to account. We call on you to demand Musk uphold these basic standards of community trust and safety, and to pull your advertising spending from Twitter if they are not.”

Three groups’ logos appear on the letterhead of the document: Accountable Tech, Media Matters for America, and UltraViolet.

Accountable Tech is a non-profit established in Washington, DC, with ties to prominent Democrats. A co-founder, Jesse Lehrich, previously worked as a spokesperson for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. He is also the nephew of David Axelrod, a former Obama aide.

David Brock, a political operative and Clinton supporter, formed Media Matters for America. The MMFA website is “dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analysing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the United States media.”

UltraViolet is a feminist movement that is “mobilized to fight sexism and create a more inclusive world that accurately represents all women, from politics and government to media and pop culture.”

Other signatories, such as Access Now, have received backing from the Canadian and European governments, as well as from George Soros, the billionaire financier who leads the Open Society Foundations.

Last Monday, Twitter’s board of directors approved Musk’s $44 billion buyout deal. The site’s content filtering policies will be changed by the world’s richest man in order to restore “free speech” to the platform.

Liberals are concerned that Musk may reinstate Donald Trump, who was banned from Twitter during the protests at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, and other prominent conservative personalities who were previously banned.

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