Twitter boss Elon Musk wants to lure liberal TV presenters like fired CNN anchor Don Lemon and MSNBC host Rachel Maddow to his platform to balance Tucker Carlson’s conservative views.
“It will be great if @maddow, @donlemon and others on the left put their shows on this platform,” Musk wrote on Thursday, retweeting the second a part of the Carlson show.
“You’ll receive our full support. The digital city square is for everyone,” Musk added in a tweet.
This is not the primary time Musk has turned to Lemon.
“Have you ever considered doing all your show on this platform? Could be value a try. The audience is way greater,” Musk said in an interview Tweets from May 10which was posted in response to Lemon’s fiery post announcing his exit from the beleaguered network.
Twitter boasts about 450 million monthly lively users, while “CNN This Morning” – which Lemon co-hosted with Poppy Harlow and Kaitlan Collins – had a dismal average of 360,000 viewers just before its launch.
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Meanwhile, Maddow’s weekly show, “The Rachel Maddow Show,” is MSNBC’s No. 1 show, consistently garnering greater than 200,000 viewers within the coveted 25- to 54-year-old demographic, based on USTVDB figurines.
As reported by the portal, for the last nine consecutive Mondays, Maddow’s audience exceeded 2 million.
The Post reached out to Maddow and Lemon for comment.
Recruiting votes on either side of the political corridor gave the impression of a private mission for Musk, who hosted events on Twitter Spaces for two weeks with Republican presidential nominee Ron DeSantis and Democratic nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The billionaire often touted Twitter as “a spot where all voices are heard and where there’s a type of dynamic interaction that you simply don’t really see anywhere else.”
Nonetheless, the strategy doesn’t appear to be working for the platform’s funds. Ad revenue has fallen 59% since Musk took over last October, and advertisers fear the app could turn into chaotic under the rule of the open-ended tycoon.
Within the five weeks between April 1 and early May, Twitter ad revenue fell by $88 million from a 12 months earlier, based on documents reviewed by The Recent York Times.
The cash-strapped social networking site also often fell wanting its sales forecasts, sometimes by as much as 30%, with figures not predicting improvement anytime soon, the documents show.
In an effort to lower your expenses, Musk laid off half of the corporate’s employees late last 12 months, claiming the move saved Twitter $700 million in 2023.