Elon Musk defends X against Don Lemon’s ‘moderation’ claims [Video]

Former CNN host Don Lemon sparred with owner of the X platform and entrepreneur Elon Musk over alleged hate speech on the app, which Lemon said is need of content moderation.

Lemon launched a talk show across most social media platforms after being fired from CNN in 2023. The first episode of “The Don Lemon Show” featured and interview with Musk inside a Tesla manufacturing plant.

After discussing Tesla and pressing Musk on who he will support in the 2024 presidential election, Lemon began a lengthy segment endorsing the idea that X is in desperate need of content moderation.

“These are just a handful of extremely … anti-Semitic and racist tropes and tweets, and as of this morning they’re still on X,” Lemon said, while showing Musk printouts of offensive memes of varying degrees.

“We delete things if they are illegal,” Musk replied.

“But these have been up there for a while,” Lemon came back.

“Are they illegal?” Musk asked.

“They’re …