Twitter boss Elon Musk desires to lure liberal TV hosts like fired CNN anchor Don Lemon or MSNBC host Rachel Maddow to his platform to balance out conservative views voiced by Tucker Carlson.
“It’d be great to have @maddow, @donlemon & others on the left put their shows on this platform,” Musk wrote Thursday while retweeting the second installment of Carlson show.
“You’ll receive our full support. The digital town square is for all,” Musk added within the tweet.
It’s not the primary time Musk has made a plea to Lemon.
“Have you ever considered doing all of your show on this platform? Perhaps value a try. Audience is way larger,” Musk said in a May 10 tweet, which was posted in response to Lemon’s fiery post announcing his exit from the embattled network.
Twitter boasts about 450 million energetic monthly users, while “CNN This Morning” — which Lemon co-anchored alongside Poppy Harlow and Kaitlan Collins — averaged a dismal 360,000 viewers just before he was booted.
Elon Musk called on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and axed CNN anchor Don Lemon to start out their very own show on Twitter in an effort to get leftist voices on the platform.Twitter/Elon Musk
Lemon co-anchored “CNN This Morning,” which averaged dismal rankings, before he was fired over a series of controversies that ended when he referred to 51-year-old GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley as not “in her prime.”WireImage
Tucker Carlson released episodes 1 and a couple of of “Tucker on Twitter,” and has raked in lots of of tens of millions of views.Twitter/Tucker Carlson
“The Rachel Maddow Show” is MSNBC’s No. 1-rated program, and consistently clocks greater than 200,000 viewers within the coveted 25-to-54 demo.Kristin Callahan/Ace/Shutterstock
Meanwhile, Maddow’s namesake weekly show, “The Rachel Maddow Show,” is MSNBC’s No. 1 program, consistently clocking upwards of 200,000 viewers just within the coveted 25-to-54-year-old demographic, based on USTVDB figures.
For the past nine consecutive Mondays, Maddow’s audience soared above 2 million, the outlet reported.
The Post reached out to representatives for Maddow and Lemon for comment.
Recruiting voices on each side of the political aisle has appeared to be a private mission for Musk, who has hosted Twitter Spaces events with Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis and Democratic candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. within the span of two weeks.
The billionaire has incessantly touted Twitter as “a spot where all voices are heard and where there’s the type of dynamic interaction that you just don’t really see anywhere else.”
Nevertheless, the strategy hasn’t appeared to be working for the platform’s funds. Ad revenue has plummeted 59% since Musk took over last October, with advertisers citing worries the app could grow to be chaotic under the outspoken mogul.
For the five weeks between April 1 and early May, Twitter’s ad revenue fell $88 million in comparison with the yr prior, based on documents reviewed by The Latest York Times.
The cash-strapped social media site has also incessantly fallen in need of its sales projections, sometimes by as much as 30%, and the figures aren’t predicted to enhance anytime soon, the documents revealed.
In an effort to lower your expenses, Musk fired half of the corporate’s workforce late last yr, claiming the move put Twitter heading in the right direction to save lots of $700 million in 2023.
