NBC News’ Ben Collins barely holds it together explaining how Elon Musk will destroy our democracy

NBC News’ senior “dystopia beat” reporter Ben Collins can’t help but feel like things are extra-super-dystopian now that Elon Musk has taken charge of Twitter. Talk of reinstating people whose Twitter accounts had been suspended for spreading “misinformation” and “disinformation” and whatnot was bad enough. But now that it’s actually started happening … we’re on the verge of losing our democracy even harder than we were when Donald Trump was elected.

Listen:
 

I talked this morning about Elon Musk, his Paul Pelosi conspiracy theory, and how you lose a democracy in the age of the internet. pic.twitter.com/WLikKY32Ll

— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) October 31, 2022

He’s thuper-therial, you guys. Just ask The Bulwark’s Charlie Sykes:

…"This is how it gets really bad." https://t.co/MzSzP4UN46
— Charlie Sykes (@SykesCharlie) October 31, 2022

No, Charlie. What’s actually really bad is screeching about democracy being destroyed by an environment that’s more conducive to free speech.
 

“How can we have a democracy if we don’t control and censor literally every mode of communication in the country?”

— Tucker’s Furrowed Brow (@Chimp_HQ) October 31, 2022