Twitter purchase: much ado about Musk

For weeks, this has been the subject of much excited commentary: Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk has made a takeover bid for Twitter. Now the offer seems successful – but the self-proclaimed free speech activist is buying a platform that will be subject to even more regulation in the future.

Somehow horrified, that’s how many prominent Twitter users and also politicians are expressing themselves right now about the takeover of the platform, which is mainly successful in multiplier circles in Germany. After all, the eccentric entrepreneur is known for wanting to push through his own ideas. And he has already outlined them for Twitter several times: He thought it was wrong for Donald Trump to be banned from the platform. Twitter was not doing enough for freedom of expression. And that Twitter, as a global platform, should be a kind of democratic agora.

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