News Media Reacts to Elon Musk Taking Over Twitter

Eduardo Razo

Oct 28

Twitter has a new owner, and it's Tesla CEO Elon Musk. After months of speculation as to whether or not the deal would go through, since it also reached the legal system, Musk has officially taken over the platform.

Musk has already begun making changes to the company, including firing the top-level executives as he begins molding Twitter into his vision. There was plenty of reaction from all parts, including news media.

Here's what some had to say about Musk's takeover:

No idea what the future holds for this site, BUT: I can say that from my very narrow perch, blocking, muting, unfollowing, limiting whose replies you see, all those tools are basically essential to making it a pleasant place and you should use them ruthlessly!

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) October 28, 2022

Glorious. https://t.co/ZXGFh9Q6g9

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) October 28, 2022

If congress had actually implemented ANY smart regulation to social media platforms in the same way they regulate tradional media, would Elon have the power he does at this very moment.
He now controls a private company that people use like a public utility

— Stephanie Ruhle (@SRuhle) October 28, 2022

Well, at least most of these people at Twitter already learned to code.

— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) October 28, 2022

Virtually every major news homepage is leading with the same story:

Reuters: "Elon Musk's Twitter ownership begins with firings, uncertainty"

NBC: "Musk now leading Twitter, ushering in likely changes to online speech"

LA Times: "Twitter employees brace for massive layoffs" pic.twitter.com/bbqkyRds26

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) October 28, 2022

Elon Musk has taken control of @Twitter per @wsj and immediately fired the CEO and CFO. This is going to fucking amazing.

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) October 28, 2022

I think Twitter is a good news aggregator and useful for journalists and writers and thoughtful people to communicate ideas. There's also a lot of laughs here and great content (hello, #blacktwitter!) It's also a hellscape of trolling and foolishness. Musk Twitter will be worse. https://t.co/gUWebpmmD0

— Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid (@JoyAnnReid) October 28, 2022

Cautiously optimistic @elonmusk is gonna bring truth back to social media. The left should be very nervous, when truth comes in the door bullshit has to go out the window! Imagine how differently people will vote when they get truth!Big Pharma should also be shaking in its boots!

— Tomi Lahren (@TomiLahren) October 28, 2022