CNN's Jim Acosta Slams Elon Musk's Fascination With Location-Sharing 'Fantasy'
CNN anchor Jim Acosta is chalking up Twitter CEO Elon Musk’s concerns over location sharing to a load of “fantasy.”
Acosta weighed in on Musk’s claims that several journalists were suspended from the social media platform after violating rules by sharing his “exact real-time location.”
Musk, who tweeted that the information was “basically assassination coordinates,” joined a Twitter Spaces chat on Thursday where he doubled down on his false claim as The Washington Post’s Drew Harwell — one of the journalists whose accounts have since been reinstated on the platform — pressed him.
Acosta questioned Musk’s “real-time location” claim on Saturday and defined his accusation as part of a “fantasy.”
“If you’re a reporter covering a politician or a sporting event and you tweet that [someone has] just arrived on the floor, that a player has arrived at the stadium, I suppose you’re talking about their real-time location. But if you’re talking about Elon Musk’s jet, I mean how in the world are you supposed to be providing precise coordinates at any given moment?” Acosta asked.
Acosta continued: “If you were to extrapolate this out and engage in this fantasy, I mean does he think the U.S. Air Force is coming? It’s just so strange.”
You can listen to Acosta’s remarks in the clip below.
“Does he think the US Air Force is coming?” Jim Acosta says Elon Musk’s concerns about real-time location sharing are a “fantasy”. (Video: CNN) pic.twitter.com/lCdievJ82n
— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) December 17, 2022
