Billionaire entrepreneur and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban threw a temper tantrum about Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, which he later re-branded to X, during an appearance on the Impaulsive podcast. Cuban labelled X — where he has frequently clashed with users and even Musk himself over the merit of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) policies — as a “cesspool,” adding that he still enjoys Instagram.
“X is just such a cesspool now,” Cuban said. Paul’s co-host, Mike Majlak, immediately agreed with the statement, calling Musk’s platform a “sh** show.”
“It’s a sh** hole, right? You can’t win no matter what. Everything like…. less and less time. Elon fu**ed that sh** up badly,” Cuban continued as Paul and Majlak nodded in agreement. “But, you know, Instagram’s still chill, TikTok’s still chill, and there’s other places, right, that aren’t so bad where you can mess with people and have fun. But you just can’t do it on Twitter.”
Majlak then chimed in to say that the conversation surrounding X is important, adding that “the conversation around like, real radical free speech, continues to like carry on here.”
“I mean, that’s kind of what you have there,” he said.
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