Fox News Hosts Tucker Carlson and Mark Levin Announce Their Return to Twitter After Musk Takeover

Kipp JonesApr 25th, 2022, 7:51 pm
 

Tucker Carlson, Mark Levin Return to Twitter After Elon Musk Buys

Fox News hosts Tucker Carlson and Mark Levin have ended their respective boycotts of Twitter.

Monday afternoon, it was announced the platform would be purchased by Elon Musk for $44 billion following a weeks-long battle for the platform.

“Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated,” Musk said in a statement. “Twitter has tremendous potential — I look forward to working with the company and the community of users to unlock it.”

On Monday evening, the two prominent Fox personalities announced they would again use the platform following Musk’s purchase of it.

Carlson was locked out of his account on March 23 over a tweet in which he argued the Babylon Bee and Charlie Kirk were both suspended after they called Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine – a transgender woman – a man.

The Fox News host shared screen grabs of their posts, and commented, “But wait. Both these tweets are true.”

Carlson was suspended, and was offered his account back if he deleted the tweet. Fox News said that was something Carlson would never do.

Carlson announced he was “back” on Twitter just after 7 p.m. ET Monday.

Levin, who was not banned, also announced his return:

Musk has been a vocal critical of Twitter’s censoring high-profile accounts. To begin 2021, Twitter’s censors saw the banishment of then-sitting U.S. president Donald Trump after the Capitol riot.

In the year since, prominent accounts, most of them conservative, have been similarly targeted for suspension.

The banishment of prominent accounts followed a campaign by the company in October 2020 in which users who shared reporting about Hunter Biden’s laptop were locked out of their accounts.

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