Caitlyn Jenner Says Elon Musk Twitter Takeover Will Be 'Nothing But Good'

Fox News contributor Caitlyn Jenner has applauded Elon Musk's Twitter takeover, saying that his purchase of the social media platform will be "nothing but good."

The Tesla CEO's deal to acquire the company, which closed last week following a tumultuous few months of anticipation, has been praised by a number of right-wing figures who have accused the platform of exercising a bias against conservatives.

Musk, 51, immediately made big changes behind the scenes by firing several top executives at the social-media company, including CEO Parag Agrawal and head of legal Vijaya Gadde—the latter of whom was publicly criticized by the mogul.

As the social media world anticipates new beginnings under Musk, who has spoken about prioritizing free speech on the platform, Jenner, 73, counts herself among those who foresees positive changes for the micro-blogging platform.

Making an appearance on U.K. TV show Piers Morgan Uncensored on Monday, Jenner started the conversation by saying that she was "doing just fine, actually very excited to see what's going to happen to social media now that Elon Musk is in control of Twitter. I think it's going to be very interesting in the future."

During her remote interview with titular host Piers Morgan, the erstwhile California gubernatorial candidate went on to say that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's social media empire was now suffering losses due to him being a "voice for the left."

Stocks in Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, recently plunged to their lowest levels since 2016, amid declines in its quarterly revenue. Rivals such as TikTok have hurt the social-media company, as well as a slowdown in online advertising spending and challenges from Apple's iOS privacy update, which Facebook said would result in a $10 billion revenue loss this year.

"Social media has had a monopoly on the far left," Jenner told Morgan. "And finally, Elon Musk came in and he wants a free speech platform for everybody—the left, the right. I think it's going to be good, and I think it's going to really shake up social media.

"You look at Mark Zuckerberg. It was reported last week he lost [billions] in value at Meta, because he's been so far left for so long and a voice for the left that people are leaving and going someplace else. So it's going to take some time to figure out exactly how this is going to work out, but I think it's going to be very good in the long run for social media."

Jenner went on to say that Musk is "bringing in a lot of technical people from Tesla. And he's gonna shake this thing up. I think it's going to be so interesting to watch. And I think I think it's going to be nothing but good."

Jenner also spoke of being shadow-banned on the platform. Conservatives have long condemned Twitter for shadow-banning right-wing voices. Shadow-banning occurs when a platform prevents a user's posts from being visible to other users without their knowledge.

"You know, I've been on Twitter. I've been shadow-banned," said the Olympic gold medalist. "In fact, I was shadow-banned the day it was announced that I had joined Fox News as a contributor. I immediately got shadow-banned."

"It's funny you say that," host Morgan interjected. "Because oddly, I've noticed over the last few months my Twitter following number had gone down quite slowly but steadily for months and months and months. I was losing followers.

"But in the last two weeks, since it looked like Elon Musk was basically going to be taking it over, I've suddenly gained all the followers I lost in two weeks.

"Now, it might be coincidence, it might be they were taking away bots, or something like that, or it might just be that from the moment it looked like Elon Musk was actually going to run Twitter, a lot of the people doing this kind shadow-banning... I smell a rat here."

Musk agreed in April to buy Twitter with the promises to install laxer content restrictions and crack down on spam accounts, but he had a change of mind in July and tried to back out from the deal, saying that he was misled about the number of fake accounts on the platform.

There are expectations that Musk will reinstate the account of former President Donald Trump, who was permanently banned from Twitter over fears he would use the platform to incite further violence after the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021.

Following his takeover, Musk said he intends to scrap Twitter's policy of issuing lifelong bans from the platform as he does not believe in permanent prohibitions, an unnamed source told Bloomberg.

Since the deal was closed, Twitter has reportedly seen a rise in hate speech, which has been condemned by a number of celebrities, Musk has also suggested the idea of bringing Vine back as well as making verified users pay for their verified blue check.