Musk says Twitter is a digital town square — but unfettered free speech is a fantasy

The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, seems set to purchase the social media platform Twitter for around US$44 billion. He says he’s not doing it to make money (which is good, because Twitter has rarely turned a profit), but rather because, among other things, he believes in free speech. Twitter might seem an odd place to make a stand for free speech. The service has around 217 million daily users, only a fraction of the 2.8 billion who log in each day to one of the Meta family (Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp). But the platform plays a disproportionately large role…This story continues at The Next WebOr just read more coverage about: Twitter

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