Elon Musk claims he faces ‘quite significant’ risk of being assassinated

Twitter chief Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, in a live Q&A on wide-ranging topics, including Hunter Biden’s laptop story, claimed that there is “quite a significant” risk that he will be assassinated.

In a two-hour-long chat on Twitter Spaces, Musk told his listeners he would not “be doing any open-air car parades.”

“Frankly, the risk of something bad happening to me, or even literally being shot, is quite significant,” he said.

“It’s not that hard to kill somebody if you wanted to, so hopefully they don’t and fate smiles upon the situation with me and it does not happen. There’s definitely some risk there,” he added.

The Tesla CEO and Chief Twit, a self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist”, also noted that at the end of the day, all want to have a future where they are not oppressed.

HUNTER BIDEN LAPTOP STORY
Elon Musk had promised a Q&A on Twitter’s “suppression” of a controversial story done by the New York Post newspaper about US President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden’s laptop that was published before the 2020 US election.

The story claimed to contain emails retrieved from a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden. The New York Post said it learned of the emails’ existence from Trump’s former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon and obtained the emails from Trump’s personal lawyer at the time, Rudy Giuliani.

Twitter initially limited the distribution of the story, citing concerns that it could be the result of a foreign disinformation campaign. But the social media company quickly backtracked on its response, with then-CEO Jack Dorsey calling the decision to block the link “unacceptable.”

A series of tweets along with internal communications from Twitter were released by writer Matt Taibbi regarding the allegations that the social media platform during the 2020 election cycle suppressed news and information related to Hunter’s laptop.