In a recent interview with The Babylon Bee, Elon Musk, the current owner of Twitter, revealed the discovery of a decade-old line of code in Twitter’s algorithms designed to suppress tweets containing certain keywords. This information was made public during Musk’s conversation with The Babylon Bee, a satirical news outlet that had previously experienced censorship on Twitter.
During the interview, Kyle Mann, the editor-in-chief of The Babylon Bee, questioned Musk’s decision to expose the problematic aspects of Twitter after acquiring the company. Mann asked, “Who takes over a company and then says, ‘Look, how horrible all this stuff is that’s going on’?”