‘The Platform is Obviously a Mess!’ CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan Sounds Alarm on Elon Musk Falling ‘Down the Rabbit Hole’ of Conspiracy Theories

CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan delivered a startling report CNN This Morning on Monday and said Elon Musk, after inviting several extremist conspiracy theorists on to Twitter/X, is on “a very public journey down the rabbit hole.”

During Sunday’s Twitter Spaces livestream, Musk opened up the stage for the likes of right-wing extremist Alex Jones, self-proclaimed misogynist Andrew Tate, former national security advisor and current conspiracy theorist Mike Flynn, and presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy to say pretty much whatever they wanted without being challenged. After anchor Phil Mattingly named that murderer’s row of a panel, he turned, stammering, to O’Sullivan, who painted a dire picture of the social media landscape heading into 2024’s election. He started by stating a sad truth:

Well, I think if you bring back up that full screen there of that cast of characters who are on that Twitter audio stream last night, I mean, that is Twitter right now, to be honest with you. That’s Elon Musk, Alex Jones, Flynn. I mean, the platform is is obviously a mess!

He added:

You know, after the January 6th attack, a lot of these big conspiracy theorists, including [former President] Donald Trump, got kicked off the platform. And that drove a lot of people to these kind of alternative platforms, some places where extremism and hate can really fester. Now, X, one of the biggest platforms in the world, that is the platform, that is the alternative platform, but it’s mainstream.

The man responsible for that is Musk, whom O’Sullivan described as taking “a very public journey down the rabbit hole”:

I mean, I think what we’re seeing with Elon Musk is a very public journey down the rabbit hole. You know, I mean, I think he’s going deeper and deeper, and then you sort of see the cast of characters that he’s hanging out with. I mean, quite concerning if, you know, one of the richest, most powerful men in the world is is amplifying these voices and choosing to amplify that. So I think that’s what we’re seeing here.

But O’Sullivan’s warning about the future of social media was even more dire, saying that while Twitter/X was going to be “totally off the rails,” other platforms including YouTube and Meta’s stable of apps — Facebook, Instagram, and Threads — “will take money from candidates to allow them to promote lies that say the 2020 election was stolen.”

Watch the video above via CNN.