Many prominent democrats have been pushing for more content moderation rate because they think that sort of these bullying or harmful voices can drown out more vulnerable populations. But you're seeing a lot f people on the right, and i would say, in the middle, and even part to the left, arguing that this is too heavy handed. Of course, twitter's most famous instance of content moderation was kicking the former president off the platform. Do we know if elon musk plans to bring him back? He hasn't said one way or another, but it seems like a definite possibility. And he's been sort of egging on the right. Yesterday he tweeted something about how truths social, which
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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