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Tucker Carlson's second Twitter show has amassed tens of millions of views in a matter of hours - in another sign his departure from Fox News has done nothing to impact his huge influence.
In the 13-minute monologue posted on Thursday night, Carlson urged Americans to 'cling to your taboos like your life depends on it' and made the inflammatory suggestion that white supremacy is an 'unfashionable opinion'.
Sixteen hours later, around 40 million people had seen the post and it had been retweeted and liked a combined total of more than 500,000 times.
The huge figures will likely reassure Carlson that choosing Elon Musk's Twitter as the platform for his post-Fox career was the right decision. By comparison, his show 'Tucker Carlson Tonight' on Fox News, which was the most-watched program on cable news show, received an average of 3.1 million viewers per night.
But some commentators have said the transfer to a platform where he is essentially a solo operator with little oversight has pushed him further into the realms of conspiracy theories.
Tucker Carlson's second Twitter show amassed tens of millions of views in a matter of hours - in another sign his departure from Fox News has done nothing to impact his huge influence
Carlson cited an investigation by the Wall Street Journal which revealed how popular social media site Instagram was helping to connect and promote a network of pedophile accounts
He focused the latest show on 'taboos' and claimed that 'the greatest taboo of
