Twitter CEO Elon Musk conflates outrage from QAnon community with criticism of the platform’s LGBTQ hate
Musk on content moderation complaints: “LGBTQ and QAnon, simultaneously upset. I think, you know, things go full circle: LGBTQAnon.”
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Citation From the May 31, 2023, interview with Babylon Bee's CEO Seth Dillon
SETH DILLON (BABYLON BEE CEO): This new hire, though, there have been people. You made kind of both sides mad about it, right? You got people on the left who are mad for their reasons. You have people on the right who are mad for their reasons. You seem satisfied with that outcome because it means that, you know, if you've got people on the fringes, on both sides upset, then you're doing something right. Right?
ELON MUSK (TWITTER CEO): Yeah.
DILLON: But when it comes to --
MUSK: LGBTQ and QAnon, simultaneously upset. That's why I think, you know, things go full circle: LGBTQAnon. That'll probably get me in trouble.