DeSantis’s Big Event Underscores a Rightward Move for Twitter
What DeSantis means for Twitter
Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida is expected to finally announce his presidential campaign on Wednesday night — but not on a stalwart of conservative media, like Fox News. Instead, the Republican star will do so live on Twitter, in a conversation with Elon Musk.
The move underscores both that Twitter, under its billionaire owner, has moved to embrace the political right and that Mr. DeSantis’s top business supporters so far are tech-industry libertarians, rather than traditional Republican moguls.
Twitter is becoming a conservative media hot spot in the Musk era. That started last year, when the company lifted bans on thousands of accounts, including ones that had spread misinformation about the pandemic and the 2020 elections.
Since then, Tucker Carlson has said he would revive his show on the social network after losing his Fox News slot, though Mr. Musk has said that Twitter hasn’t signed a deal with him. And The Daily Wire, a conservative media outlet, will reportedly make Twitter the home for all its podcasts.
Source: The New York Times
