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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Dan Milmo and Johana Bhuiyan

The price of free speech: why Elon Musk’s $44bn vision for Twitter could fall apart

Elon Musk
Musk is a prolific, and controversial, Twitter user and has called the platform ‘the digital town square’. Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images

Contained within 95 pages of dense legal jargon, the warning from Twitter to Elon Musk was clear: don’t use your considerable power on the social media platform to attack the company.

The world’s richest man and owner-in-waiting of Twitter signed an agreement for the planned $44bn (£35bn) takeover last week confirming that he could tweet about the deal so long as “such tweets do not disparage the company or any of its representatives”.

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