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Nov 2nd - 1 Min Read

Elon Musk Takes Over Twitter, But What Happens To “Free Speech” On The Platform?

By: Hozan Qaraman

Elon Musk finalised Twitter's takeover for $44 billion this week with the aim of turning the platform into such a tool that it would become a space for everyone to raise their voices. The richest man in the world lent some money from Wall Street Banks then added up with some of his own cash and co-investors made the buying complete. Back In early April when Musk bought 9.2% of the company for $3 billion, but it did not convince him as the announcement of buying 100% of Twitter by Mr Musk came up after ten days.


Directly after the purchase was done, Musk fired a few executives in the company’s headquarters and found himself a position, which is Twit Chief. Also, reports demonstrated the possibility of losing jobs of 75% Twitter’s staff, however, Ross Gerber, who is a shareholder in Musk’s Twitter and Tesla companies, refused those suggestions from the reports.


“The bird is freed” tweeted by Musk right after the takeover. The message delivered behind it could tell us about Musk’s vision for the future of Twitter as he desires to provide an open space where everyone can fearlessly express their opinions. Despite all of that, there are concerns new policies will be made in regards to freedom of speech since it would allow those who were banned from the platform due to the dissemination of misinformation and hate speech, to comeback.


There are many speculations regarding what Twitter will look like in the future. Yet we should wait until we experience Musk’s policies and vision for the social media platform.