Tucker Carlson will debut his show on Twitter soon, as announced by the former star presenter of the Fox News television network and figure of the American far-right. After a controversial dismissal from the channel, Carlson has decided to head to the social network owned by Elon Musk.
According to this icon of the pro-Trump ultra-right, what has led him to land on the blue bird platform is “freedom of expression” that has been allowed since Elon Musk is in charge: “Soon we will bring a new version to Twitter of the program that we have been doing in the last six and a half yearsâ€, he explained.
“The best thing you can ask for in the news business at this point is the freedom to tell the whole truth, but there are always limits that, you know, if you cross too often you get fired,” lamented Tucker Carlson, although without making any reference to his old home, Fox News.
Faced with his forced goodbye to traditional television, Carlson has praised Twitter as “the only” platform “left in the world” where free speech is allowed today. For the far-right, the social network is a “non-partisan site, open to everyone”, unlike the more conventional media.
Fox News decided to kick out Tucker Carlson last April, getting rid of one of the great leaders of the current conservative movement in the United States who has echoed theories such as the unfounded allegations that there was electoral fraud in the last presidential elections, as he has been doing. Donald Trump himself.
Fox News fired Carlson less than a week after he agreed to pay $787.5 million in a settlement with Dominion Voting Systems to avoid a last-minute defamation lawsuit against the voting machine company.
