The world’s richest man now owns the world’s most powerful communications platform.
But even with Elon Musk’s vow to make Twitter a platform for free speech, civil rights advocates fear the takeover will mean it will become a safe haven for hateful trolls and conspiracy theorists — including former President Donald Trump, despite his saying he’d rather stick with his own floundering platform Truth Social.
Musk, CEO of Tesla and founder of SpaceX worth roughly $265 billion, moved into cyberspace Monday by acquiring Twitter for $44 billion. So what’s next?