Elon Musk has cancelled The Don Lemon Show on his social media network X after the former CNN anchor recorded an interview with the billionaire for its as-yet unaired first episode.
In a post on X, the San Francisco-based company said that after careful consideration, it had “decided not to enter into a commercial partnership with the show”, but added that Lemon's show is welcome to publish content on the platform.
X announced a "new content partnership" with Lemon's show in January, saying 30-minute episodes would be posted on the platform three times a week.
In a video posted to X, Lemon declared that “Elon Musk is mad at me″ and said he would be airing his interview with the Tesla chief on YouTube and via podcast on Monday.
Lemon did not go into specifics about the source of Mr Musk’s alleged unhappiness, but wrote: “Throughout our conversation, I kept reiterating to him that although it was tense at times, I thought it was good for people to see and hear our exchange and that they would learn from our conversation.
“But apparently free speech absolutism doesn’t apply when it comes to questions about him from people like me.”
Mr Musk has often touted himself as a “free speech absolutist”.
What was said in the Don Lemon interview?
In a later CNN discussion with Lemon on Monday, anchor Erin Burnett played clips of his Musk interview in which the Tesla and SpaceX chief executive grew irritable when asked about content moderation and the spread of hate speech on the X platform.
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Lemon asked Mr Musk in the clip if he believed that he and his social platform held any responsibility for moderating hate speech on X, particularly the spread of the “great replacement theory”, a racist belief that, in its most extreme form, falsely contends that Jews are behind a plot to diminish the influence of white people in the US.
“The only reason I’m in this interview is because you’re on the X platform and you asked for it,” Mr Musk told Lemon sharply. “Otherwise I would not be doing this interview.”
Another part of the interview shows Lemon asking Mr Musk about his use of drugs and his experiences with depression. Mr Musk responds by speaking about how prescription drugs can be used to treat the condition but Lemon told CNN that he had been probing the Tesla chief's use of recreational drugs.
“Elon Musk is responsible for satellites, for Starlink, he's responsible for Tesla … I think that it is important for people to understand his mindset, whether he's using drugs legally or not,” Lemon said.
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Why did Elon Musk cancel Don Lemon's show?
Lemon said he had been informed of the decision to cancel the show hours after he conducted the interview.
“Elon publicly encouraged me to join X with a new show, saying I would have his ‘full support,’ and that his ‘digital town square is for all’,” Lemon, who was fired from CNN last year after 17 years, said in a post on X.
“He and his team pursued the deal in numerous conversations and made significant commitments about the support X would provide for the show.”
In his own post, Mr Musk said that the show’s approach was “basically just CNN, but on social media”. That approach does not work, he said, “as evidenced by the fact that CNN is dying”.
Lemon said he took Mr Musk and his team at their word that they were interested in working directly with new and diverse voices.
However, two people familiar with the terms of the deal told Semafor that Lemon had not technically signed a contract with X, arguing that the social media company does not need to pay the former cable news host.
The interview with Mr Musk covered “everything from SpaceX to the presidential election”, Lemon said.
“We had a good conversation,” he added. “Clearly he felt differently.”
Key findings of Jenkins report
- Founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hassan al Banna, "accepted the political utility of violence"
- Views of key Muslim Brotherhood ideologue, Sayyid Qutb, have “consistently been understood” as permitting “the use of extreme violence in the pursuit of the perfect Islamic society” and “never been institutionally disowned” by the movement.
- Muslim Brotherhood at all levels has repeatedly defended Hamas attacks against Israel, including the use of suicide bombers and the killing of civilians.
- Laying out the report in the House of Commons, David Cameron told MPs: "The main findings of the review support the conclusion that membership of, association with, or influence by the Muslim Brotherhood should be considered as a possible indicator of extremism."
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