Musk Tells Rogan Twitter 'Suppressed' Republicans '10 Times' More Than Dems

Elon Musk said that conservative users of X, formerly Twitter, were suppressed "10 times the rate" of liberal users prior to him taking over the company.

Musk, the platform's CEO, obtained X in October 2022 and quickly made headlines after signing off on a series of reports published by independent journalist Matt Taibbi in late 2022 nicknamed the "Twitter Files." Taibbi's work purportedly showed that the platform's previous ownership, led by Twitter's founder and previous CEO Jack Dorsey, had worked with the federal government to censor conservative and Republican content online.

Speaking with podcaster Joe Rogan on Tuesday, Musk described Twitter as once acting as "an arm of the government," and claimed that Dorsey "didn't really know" that such actions were taking place.