President-elect Donald Trump’s close relationship with Elon Musk puts an “unelected defense contractor” in the White House and poses the “most direct and sustained threat” to the First Amendment and the freedom of the press imaginable, according to The Verge Editor-in-Chief Nilay Patel.
The Verge’s boss made his comment to Oliver Darcy’s Status website on Sunday, while also calling Musk a drug-user who twists the “algorithmic knobs of an influential right-wing echo chamber.”
Patel, in his interview with Status, didn’t share much of an explanation on how the Musk-Trump alliance poses a huge threat to freedom of speech in the U.S.