Piers Morgan backs Elon Musk’s proposal to buy Twitter for $40billion: ‘He wants to return free speech’Cydney Yeates

Elon Musk has Piers Morgan’s backing (Picture: AFP/Getty)

Piers Morgan has thrown support behind Elon Musk’s plan to buy Twitter in the name of free speech.

Earlier this month, Tesla and SpaceX boss Musk proposed to buy the social media app for more than $40billion (£30.5billion), just days after it was announced he would not be joining the platform’s board of directors.

Former Good Morning Britain presenter Piers rallied around the businessman’s offer, believing that he would return free speech to the platform after Donald Trump was banned.

‘I think it’s a good thing because Elon Musk is an absolute flagbearer for free speech,’ Piers told Fox News.

‘He talks about this “woke mindset virus” and I think he’s right, it is a virus. If you go around wanting to destroy everything that gets in your way that you don’t agree with, then you become a really dangerous thing in society.

‘Elon Musk wants to return free speech. I think he recognises that it’s completely ridiculous, for example, that Donald Trump is banned from Twitter and yet people who still have accounts, including Vladimir Putin, the supreme leader of Iran, and Taliban leaders.

Musk has proposed buying Twitter for a cool $40billion (Picture: Getty)

‘Now, how can that be right? How can that be justified that a social media platform allows them accounts but bans Donald Trump?’

Piers concluded by expressing that Musk would have a ‘much more tolerant view’ of all manner of people’s right to free speech. ‘not just on the left, but also on the right’.

His comments come ahead of the launch of his new TalkTV show Uncensored, which is due to make its debut on Monday night.

The programme has already made headlines for an ‘explosive’ interview with its first guest, Trump.

A promotional clip appeared to show the former world leader storming off camera after being challenged about his claims the 2020 US election was ‘stolen’ from him.

Trump later released a statement claiming Morgan ‘attempted to unlawfully and deceptively edit his long and tedious interview with me’ before the presenter urged the public to ‘watch the interview – it will all be there’.

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TalkTV, the new venture from News UK, the publisher of the The Times and The Sun, airs on linear TV platforms as well as online services such as Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV and YouTube.

Morgan’s new global show will launch via TalkTV in the UK, Fox Nation in the US and Sky News in Australia.

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