Tucker Carlson will be taking his show to social media

Is Twitter a Platform for Creators? Elon Musk explains Puck News’s Behaviour of the Carlson Post

Twitter’s controlling owner, Elon Musk hinted at contractual concerns Tuesday evening, hours after Carlson’s video post. “On this platform, unlike the one-way street of broadcast, people are able to interact, critique and refute whatever he or anyone may say,” Musk Tweeted. I want to make it clear that we do not have a deal of any kind.

There are no details we’ve seen yet about any financial arrangement between Carlson and Twitter or its owner and CEO, Elon Musk. Musk has been promoting the idea of a platform for creators, with potential sharing of ad revenue and the re-launch of subscription for followers.

“We bring some other things too, which we’ll tell you about. We are just grateful to be here. You have a right to free speech. Without it, you have no others,” says Carlson.

According to Dylan Byers of Puck News, Carlson will forgo “at least $25 million” owed by Fox to break a non-compete clause with the new show. The video was sent to Fox News by Carlson’s lawyers, who accused the network of fraud and breaching a contract, according to the report. The argument positions Carlson to argue that Fox News violated the contract first and claim he isn’t violating any non-compete clause with a new show elsewhere.

In a three-minute video haranguing the mainstream media circus he’s spent his career as a part of, Carlson insists that “the only one remaining” platform allowing free speech is Twitter, as opposed to the cable news outlets that he calls propaganda outlets.

Abby Grossberg’s Case against Fox News and a New York Times “Bang on a Bug” and the Fox News / NPR Correspondence

The former producer, Abby Grossberg, voluntarily dropped a related case against Fox and Carlson in Delaware on Tuesday; her attorneys released a statement saying she would fold those accusations into her case in New York.

Major advertisers had already abandoned Carlson’s Fox News show, which regularly embraced groundless conspiracy theories and made appeals broadly found to be racist, xenophobic and misogynistic.

Days before the Dominion settlement, Carlson hosted Musk on his Fox show in a two-night special. It was included in an exchange where the two laughed at Musk comparing the New York Times to a bug.

NPR requested a comment on its story, so the radio program’s email was replied to with a poop emoji. Musk did not reply to emails that asked about Carlson’s announcement.

“Twitter is becoming a fringe network which places hyper-partisanship, lies, and hate over application of corporate policies and robust trust and safety,” Benavidez added.

Since his ouster from Fox, Carlson had been wooed openly by numerous conservative and right-wing outlets, including Glenn Beck’s The Blaze, Newsmax, and others.