Elon Musk tells Adam Schiff his brain is ‘too small’ for teenage political tweet attack
- US News
- December 19, 2022
- No Comment
- 11
Elon Musk, CEO of billionaire Twitter, mobilized his social media giant to get into national politics on Sunday, launching a flagrant attack on a lawmaker who had criticized his assault on free speech.
Musk suggested the size of Rep. Adam Schiff’s (D-Calif.) “brain” in a tweet.
“Luckily you are losing your presidency very soon,” Musk wrote Sunday morning, referring to Schiff’s position as head of the House Intelligence Committee. “Your brain is too small.”
Schiff will step down as committee chair when the new Republican majority takes over the House of Representatives.
Musk’s tweet – which was removed later in the day – was in response to Schiff’s tweet on Friday, in which he criticized Musk’s policy on Twitter of censoring journalists whose reporting he doesn’t like while allowing Twitter users to spread hate.
Musk calls himself a “free speech absolutist to justify ignoring hate and bigotry on Twitter,” Schiff wrote.
Musk insisted in a reply-tweet that the data was “wrong,” but offered no evidence to contradict statistics gathered in online research.