Kara Swisher Swipes Professional Adult Toddler Elon Musk

Elon Musk, never ever one to let criticism of him go without an action, having a went at tech reporter Kara Swisher over her recent podcast on Twitter’s future. Swisher reacted to that shot with a shot or more of her own in a tweet barrage.

On Thursday, Swisher published a brand-new episode of her New York Magazine podcast “On With Kara Swisher” entitled “Will Elon Musk Turn Twitter Into Yahoo Mail?” in which she and a panel of visitors tore into Musk and his influence on Twitter, from growing tech problems after a variety of layoffs, reducing links to Substack and other social networks platforms, and obstructing material in India in spite of his proclaimed dedication to totally free speech.

“I don’t use it as much because I only use it to tease Elon really, pretty much,” Swisher said on the podcast. “Now I’m not even marketing our stuff on it because what’s the point? What happens is I’ve had to turn off comments because if I don’t, the name-calling and the crazy people are just quantumly. You don’t want to deal with it. It’s like having a bunch of people who you don’t like screaming outside your house.”

In a reply on Twitter, Musk dismissed the podcaststating, “Kara has become so shrill at this point that only dogs can hear her.”

“Better than being the actual dog whistle of exhaustingly toxic nonsense and a professional adult toddler,” Swisher responded in a series of snarky tweets. “Also: Shrill? If you can’t do better than that with your tired misogynistic metaphors, I am worried for your career as a troll to anyone who even slightly disagrees with you.”

The barbed exchange, which has actually now entered into Swisher’s Twitter profile introduction, follows a week in which Musk tweeted about several conspiracy theories, consisting of declaring that Jewish billionaire George Soros wants to “erode the fabric of our civilization” and spreading out an incorrect claim that Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz belongs to the developer of The Wayback Machine, whom he thought “deleted information for nepotism.”

When asked on CNBC whether his tweets were hurting Twitter’s relationship with marketers, Musk was bold. “I’ll say what I want to say, and if the consequence of that is losing money, so be it,” he reacted.