These are the rewards you get when you sufficiently kiss Musk's ass.
Let's go back to June 2020, when a fellow reporter at The Intercept called out Fang for his racist fixation on narratives of Black people and crime.
He was on Tucker Carlson last month.
A collection of other awful takes from Fang.
Guess who managed to make this situation even worse?
You want some more awful takes, including Fang describing alt-right figure Mike Cernovich as "can be a troll"?
Glenn Greenwald literally cited Lee Fang being made to apologize to Akela Lacy as one of the reasons why he left The Intercept.
Lee Fang has been on Musk's radar for at least a few weeks. He even got the vaunted "Interesting" reply.
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