Elon Musk says he's all for free speech, but in his actual track record as a leader at tesla and space, he hasn't always been the biggest advocate for free speech. Some people find it hypocritical that hee's talking so much about free speech when he himself has been quite ofensive and try to shut down people who are critical of him or his companies. i think if elon musk went around and just like, shut down every single person whom ye had a beef with, twitter would not be a successful company, right? You sort of need people disagreeing for twitter to even workand so i don't think that we're going to see like, drastic
Elon Musk and Twitter have reached a deal. Recode’s Peter Kafka and Shirin Ghaffary explain what it means for the business of Twitter, and for free speech on the platform.
This episode was produced by Miles Bryan and Hady Mawajdeh, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram, who also edited.
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