Elon Musk Weighs in on Presidential Debate With Compliment to CNN

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Elon Musk gave CNN a compliment on Friday following the presidential debate. Taking to X, Musk said the questions posed by moderators Jake Tapper and Dana Bash “were reasonable and non-partisan,” in an X post. He added that, “No favoritism was shown to either candidate.” Musk’s praise didn’t end there, adding that, “This is what the public wants from the media.” Musk has previously been critical of the network, even going as far as to say on Wednesday he’d defy CNN’s copyright by allowing creators to broadcast the debate on X, according to Mashable. “The public has a right to see Presidential debates however they would like. DMCA does not apply,” the billionaire wrote in an X post. Meanwhile, XData posted figures claiming that chatter about the debate on the platform, “spiked by 19x from the start of the broadcast to its peak ~90 mins in.” It added: “The scale of the global conversation on X was staggering: we’ve tracked over 2B impressions with over 242M video views and 2M posts.”

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