What is Musk really doing as he guns for Twitter?


In his talk with Anderson, Musk said that Twitter is ‘bound by the laws of the country it operates in, so obviously there are some limitations on free speech in the US and of course Twitter would have to abide by those rules’. But he said it was ‘quite dangerous’ to have ‘tweets be mysteriously promoted and demoted’ and having a ‘black-box algorithm’. — RYAN LASH/ TED Conferences, LLC/AFP

Mercurial billionaire Elon Musk now says he wants to buy Twitter outright, taking it private to restore its commitment to what he terms “free speech”. But his offer, which seemed to fall flat with investors on April 14, raises as many questions as it answers.

Among them: Is he serious? Can he get the money together? Would a sale make shareholders happy? And what would the social platform look like if he succeeds?

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