FULL INTERVIEW Full Elon Musk and Bill Maher Today!

.@elonmusk: "My concern with Twitter was that it is somewhat of the digital town square, and it's important there be both reality and perception of trust for a wide range of viewpoints, and there was a lot of censorship going on, and we uncovered a lot that with the Twitter Files, including a lot of government-driven censorship."

Bill Maher asks about @TuckerCarlson's tweet that got 22 million views and 76 million impressions:

@elonmusk: "Twitter has a tremendous audience. There are 250 million people that spend an average of half an hour a day on Twitter. So, it's about 120 to 130 million user hours per day, and it's been increasing. To be clear, we did nothing special whatsoever.

I learned about it afterward that he had posted something on Twitter. It's just that Twitter has a lot of people's attention, and it tends to be people who read a lot or are interested in current events and generally are pretty influential."

.@elonmusk: "It's bizarre that we've come to this point where free speech used to be a liberal value. And yet we see from the 'left' a desire to censor. That seems crazy. I think we should be extremely concerned about anything that undermines the First Amendment...

We must protect free speech, and free speech is only relevant when it's someone you don't like saying something you don't like because, obviously, free speech that you like is easy. The thing about censorship is that for those who would advocate it, just remember at some point that will be turned on you."

.@elonmusk: "I spent a massive amount of my life energy building sustainable energy, electric vehicles, batteries, and solar and stuff to help save the environment. That's not exactly far right."