Elton John announces he's leaving Twitter over 'unchecked' misinformation — and Elon Musk responds



Legendary singer-songwriter Elton John announced that he was leaving Twitter over new rules that would allow "unchecked" misinformation, and Elon Musk responded.

John posted his announcement in a tweet on Friday.

"All my life I’ve tried to use music to bring people together. Yet it saddens me to see how misinformation is now being used to divide our world," he tweeted.

\u201cAll my life I\u2019ve tried to use music to bring people together. Yet it saddens me to see how misinformation is now being used to divide our world.\n\u00a0\nI\u2019ve decided to no longer use Twitter, given their recent change in policy which will allow misinformation to flourish unchecked.\u201d
— Elton John (@Elton John) 1670590869

"I’ve decided to no longer use Twitter, given their recent change in policy which will allow misinformation to flourish unchecked," he added.

His tweet garnered more than 208k "likes" of support in just 14 hours.

John didn't elaborate on what changes in policy he was referring to, but Musk has allowed many people who had been previously banned to come back to the popular social media platform. Many on the left have excoriated him for the move and claimed that hate speech has increased on their timelines.

Musk responded to the iconic performer.

"I love your music. Hope you come back. Is there any misinformation in particular that you’re concerned about?" he asked.

He did not received a response.

Musk has been publicly releasing internal documents, including emails, from Twitter in a series of revelations called the "Twitter Files," showing the chaos and incompetence that led to very controversial decisions at the social media platform.

John made headlines in 2019 when he pushed back against the LGBTQ movement for criticism over a heterosexual actor portraying him, a gay man, in the biopic based on his life.

"That's all bulls**t, I'm sorry," he said about the outrage. "If people don't like it, review-wise, or it doesn't make one dollar, it's the movie I wanted to make and that's all that counts. I can look back and say, 'You know what, I love it. I can live with it,'"

Here's the latest on Musk's moves at Twitter:

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Elton John calls Vatican hypocritical for refusing to bless same-sex unions when it got 'millions' from investing in 'Rocketman' biopic



Iconic singer-songwriter Elton John blasted the Vatican for its headline-grabbing decree, approved by Pope Francis, that it will not bless same-sex unions since God "does not and cannot bless sin."

But John also called out the Vatican for a hypocritical stance:

How can the Vatican refuse to bless gay marriages because they “are sin”, yet happily make a profit from investing… https://t.co/8YlbVZrhaR
— Elton John (@Elton John)1615824027.0

"How can the Vatican refuse to bless gay marriages because they 'are sin,' yet happily make a profit from investing millions in 'Rocketman' — a film which celebrates my finding happiness from my marriage to David [Furnish]??" John said in a Monday tweet that included a screenshot of a 2019 Daily Beast story, "How the Vatican Spent Millions on Elton John's Biopic."

The outlet's story said a financier connected to the Vatican spent $4.5 million on "Men in Black: International" and "Rocketman," the latter of which was "the first studio movie to portray gay sex between men in an authentic way."

"While investing in mainstream entertainment is hardly sinful, the great contradiction is that the Catholic Church preaches to the devout that homosexuality is a sin," the Daily Beast said. The Vatican at the time told the outlet that the expenditures were being investigated.

Anything else?

The Vatican's decree didn't single out same-sex relationships, saying the Catholic Church could not "impart a blessing on relationships, or partnerships, even stable, that involve sexual activity outside of marriage (i.e., outside the indissoluble union of a man and a woman open in itself to the transmission of life), as is the case of the unions between persons of the same sex."

Although it added that "the blessing of homosexual unions cannot be considered licit. This is because they would constitute a certain imitation or analogue of the nuptial blessing invoked on the man and woman united in the sacrament of Matrimony, while in fact 'there are absolutely no grounds for considering homosexual unions to be in any way similar or even remotely analogous to God's plan for marriage and family.'"

Rolling Stone reported about the Vatican's statements on its website under the banner headline "Guess the Cool Pope Isn't So Cool After All." Francis has gained a reputation among the left wing for being woke on issues such as wealth redistribution, socialism, and environmentalism — but not abortion.

The pope's critics also have pointed out that he was hypocritical for calling homosexuality a sin while numerous priests stand accused of pedophilia — which Francis has condemned.