On the social network owned by the American billionaire, Charlie Hebdo published several caricatures of the latter. “We hope you like our idea of freedom of expression,” they asked Elon Musk, accused of promoting disinformation.
19 drawings, posted by tomorrow. Rather than “abandoning an opportunity to express oneself”, Charlie Hebdo remains on X, Elon Musk’s controversial platform, announced this Thursday the satirical weekly, which publishes caricatures of the American billionaire, accused by many media of favoring misinformation.
“Elon Musk prides himself on defending freedom of expression. Charlie Hebdo has decided to make full use of it by broadcasting caricatures of its famous boss on X,” explains the editorial team in a press release sent to AFP.
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“We hope you like our idea of freedom of expression”
Three series of 19 drawings in total, published in the latest issue of Charlie and translated into English, will be posted between now and Friday on the social network. Already published, the first salvo is accompanied by a message in English addressed to Elon Musk. “We hope you like our idea of freedom of expression. Don’t hesitate to tell us which design you prefer,” Charlie Hebdo wrote.
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We can notably see the billionaire sketched in the simplest device, happy to have had a “brain transplant” at the end of his penis, under the title “one genius idea per minute”.
The newspaper with its corrosive humor, which has just commemorated the 10th anniversary of the Islamist attack which decimated part of its editorial team on January 7, 2015, has already devoted its latest front page to Elon Musk, appointed by the elected American president Donald Trump at the head of a department of “government efficiency”.
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Titled “Elon Musk… The far right of the future” and signed Riss, the cover represents the boss of Tesla and CEO of SpaceX emerging, in the style of the film “Alien”, from the remains of Jean-Marie Le Pen.
The social network heavily criticized
Since its acquisition in 2022 by Elon Musk, X (formerly Twitter) has been accused by many media and users of spreading false information and of not allocating enough resources for content moderation.
Announcements of departure from the platform on January 20, the date of the inauguration of Donald Trump, elected in November, have been increasing for several weeks. The investigative site Mediapart announced in December its intention to flee the social network, which it said had become a “weapon of massive disinformation”.
Others stopped publishing content in November, like the British dailies The Guardian and Spanish La Vanguardia and, in France, Ouest-France and Sud Ouest.
