Shares misinformation, re-litigates takeover trial, complains about on-boarding process, and more
Chief Twit Elon Musk has taken control of Twitter and shown he is well and truly up to the job title he gave himself after paying $44 billion for the micro-blogging platform.
Musk began his tenure with a few quips, before offering the following announcement detailing his plans to address content moderation on Twitter:
That tweet represents a departure from his previous statements suggesting he favors maximalist interpretations of the right to free speech, but is consistent with a tweet he emitted the day before his takeover was completed that addressed the advertising community and promised the service would not become a “free-for-all hellscape.”
Over the weekend Musk clarified that the creation of the content moderation council does not mean Twitter has changed its content moderation policies.
He later japed about the issue of free speech.
A reminder: Twitter permanently suspended the account of former US president Donald Trump, thrusting the service into a roiling partisan debate about accountability, censorship, and free speech.
