What Elon wants: Is Twitter buyout a victory for free speech or disinformation?

Twitter is certainly a bullhorn and the boss of Tesla and SpaceX certainly has opinions: a free speech absolutist, Musk lets loose in his tweets, for instance once calling Canada's prime minister a Nazi over Covid-19 restrictions. Who decides on what grounds whether someone like Donald Trump stays banned or gets restored to the platform? 

More broadly, is it up to Twitter, TikTok, Facebook and YouTube to regulate themselves? The European Union thinks not, but how far will leaders here go with plans to police content that incites hate and undermines democracy in the face of stiff opposition from across the Atlantic?

Produced by Charles Wente, Elise Marné, Juliette Laurain and Imen Mellaz.

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