Elon Musk Joins Anti-LGBTQ+ Libs Of TikTok to Mock Fired Employee
The wealthiest man in the world, who had proclaimed himself a free speech absolutist before banning comedian Kathy Griffin from Twitter for mocking him, and who, in the two weeks of owning the social media platform, has overseen a mass exodus of employees (both firings and resignations), a radical increase in hate speech, and advertisers pulling contracts left and right, spent time making ableist jokes to a right-wing hate account on his $44 billion app. On Tuesday afternoon, the anti-LGBTQ+ hate account Libs of TikTok tweeted several screenshots of a Twitter employee’s tweets that had resulted in their firing.“How it started...How it’s going,” the account tweeted above the screenshots at 1:05 p.m. Eastern.Thirteen minutes later, at 1:18 p.m., Elon Musk, who was not tagged in the tweet, replied to Libs Of TikTok. “A tragic case of adult onset Tourette’s,” Musk wrote.