Elon Musk Says ’60 Minutes’ Staffers ‘Deserve a Long Prison Sentence’ — In Response to Show’s Interview With a GOP DOGE Critic
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Musk accused the staff of CBS’s 60 Minutes of being the “biggest liars in the world” on Sunday and declared they “ deserve a long prison sentence.”

Summary

Elon Musk accused 60 Minutes of deception, saying its staff “deserve a long prison sentence” after the show aired an interview with ex-USAID administrator Andrew Natsios, who refuted claims of fraud in the agency.

Musk has previously criticized 60 Minutes for allegedly deceptive editing. However, Mediaite’s Colby Hall reviewed the released footage and defended CBS, stating it followed standard journalistic practices.

Meanwhile, JD Vance condemned European speech laws but distanced himself from Musk’s stance.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
    2031·
    5 days ago

    Supposed most powerful billionaire that has the world at his fingertips, can do no wrong and controls everything … can’t take a bit of criticism from a TV show.

    This guy’s skin is about as thick and tough as wet tissue paper.

    • jonne@infosec.pub
      43·
      5 days ago

      It’s obvious if you look at how he runs Twitter. There’s actually more censorship now than before this ‘free speech absolutist’ took over.

      • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        4 days ago

        That’s because they all think “free speech” means “my fringe speech”.

        Twitter/X is a “free speech” platform where the swastika is protected, and the Rainbow flag is banned. Every account still on there today sees this as a good thing, or as the cost of messaging on that platform. All of them should be ostracized and dropped until they close their accounts.

  • PattyMcB@lemmy.world
    91·
    5 days ago

    Something something “back to his shithole country” (nothing against South Africa as a whole, but Trump said something to the effect that all of Africa was “shithole countries”)

    • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      4 days ago

      He deserves to work a job based on his skill and merit, and not the starter fortune he inherited. He might make it to department manager at a best buy.

  • WatDabney@fedia.io
    1661·
    5 days ago

    Note this well - this isn’t just rhetoric. He truly and sincerely believes that people should go to prison for the “crime” of criticising him.

    The US is on the path to gulags and mass graves.

    • Kaput@lemmy.world
      52·
      5 days ago

      The world understand the USA is having some kind of episode right now . We greatly appreciate it if you could manage to keep it within your borders. Your neighbors would be glad to help rebuild once it’s calmed down.

      • DeepSeaHexapus@lemmy.world
        672·
        5 days ago

        Except this isn’t an American thing. The whole world is slowly sliding to fascism. For fucks sake Germany is on route to elect fucking Nazis again. Haven’t seen how their elections ended but it wasn’t looking good.

        • fluxion@lemmy.worldEnglish
          202·
          5 days ago

          America spearheaded this idiocy with Trump’s first election. Hopefully now that it’s well beyond the point of fucking us we’ll now at least be an example of what not to do.

        • Eril@feddit.org
          12·
          4 days ago

          To be fair the Nazis are projected to get around 20% of votes in the election (which will happen next Sunday). And as I see it, it still is unlikely (not impossible though) they would be part of a government. Yeah this is bad, but a long shot from an active fascist coup like in the US.

          • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldEnglish
            32·
            4 days ago

            I got news for you. Trump only got about 35% of eligible voters, and probably 60% of those voters didn’t want him as President, but vote because Republicans are pushing the single issue they care about (pro-life, or anti immigrant…) so we probably only have 10% or so actual bootlicking fascists successfully getting their leather-granddaddy elected. 20% is more than a large enough block to align with them because “the ends justify the means” and “they aren’t that bad” or “the left just calls everyone they don’t like fascists/Nazis” and bam, you’ve got your own Trump in power.

            Before you ask yes, the numbers are just pulled out of my ass, but the vibes I get from talking to people in a very politically middle of the road state, they feel in the right ballpark.

            • Eril@feddit.org
              5·
              3 days ago

              Germany doesn’t have a FPTP system, and therefore is not a two-party system like the US. No party can form a government on their own and needs a coalition with at least one or two other parties.

              Besides that the Bundesverfassungsgericht (the supreme court equivalent) is not corrupted like in the US and we just had a change to our constitution that is supposed to make it more resilient against being watered down (based on the authoritarian playbook we were able to observe in other countries in the past years, mainly Poland).

              I could go on about differences between Germany and the US, but the bottom line is: We might have a problem in Germany, but it is an order of magnitude smaller than in the US, so saying stuff like “Look at Germany where the Nazis are about to be back in power”, is just not something I can let stand.

              • futatorius@lemm.ee
                1·
                3 days ago

                It would still be a good idea to break up AfD into its constituent atoms. All the European hard-right parties are quislings for Putin and Trump, and without foreign support (and foreign troll farms) they’d be polling around 1%. It’s good to know that there are safeguards, but don’t be so certain that the system will protect you. Things can turn to shit suddenly.