Tucker Carlson Debuts Big Numbers Twitter Show; Threatened

Akash Arjun

Global Courant

Tucker Carlson launched his promised new show on Twitter today with stories about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, UFOs, who killed JFK, and what really happened on 9/11 — and the onetime Fox News host was a hit.

In just over four hours, the 10-minute low-tech video posted on Elon Musk’s social media platform has been viewed 27 million times.

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Often accused of taking racist and anti-immigrant positions at Fox, Carlson promised on May 9 that he would debut a show on Twitter because it is one of the few “platforms that still allow free speech”. While that may be debatable, tonight’s Twitter premiere of Tucker could be in violation of Carlson’s FNC contract — or a sign that he’s clear of it.

Neither attorney Freedman nor Fox News responded to Deadline’s request for comment on the new Twitter show. On the other hand, just back from a whirlwind and much-celebrated visit to China, Elon Musk had something to say about Carlson’s launch on his financially distressed platform:

Not that Carlson himself didn’t have much to say with thinly veiled antisematic attacks on Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky as “sweaty and ratty, a comedian turned oligarch, a persecutor of Christians.”

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