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Reflect for a moment on the remarkable turn of events at Twitter. Elon Musk is the world's richest man but he happens to have a moral conscience, which seems rather rare. He became interested in Twitter not as a money-making project but in the interest of free speech. He had some intuition that something had gone very wrong at the company. It was neglecting its customers and stockholders in favor of political narratives.
This was his intuition. The more he looked, the more suspicious he became and the more dedicated he was to just taking over the company. After some months of wrangling, it was a done deal. In the weeks that followed, he discovered that his worst fears were correct. Rather than a platform for the free exchange of ideas, empowering citizen journalism, it had become a venue for state propaganda, which ironically, Musk reports, was neglecting to police the platform for actual crimes like child porn....