Maddow: Elon Musk’s Twitter Buyout Says a Lot About Priorities of People at Highest Levels Making Decisions About the Fate of the Planet
‘Elon Musk says, he is buying Twitter to save free speech online’
Apr 26, 2022 9:00 AM
By Grabien Staff
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MADDOW: “But just consider this, and just this context. I mentioned the bipartisan infrastructure bill allocated seven and a half million dollars for ev charging stations. For the entire country. You’ll unmask is spending nearly six times that amount to buy a website where people can rate stuff in 280 characters. He Elon Musk buying Twitter says a lot about the priorities of people at the highest levels making decisions that could affect the fate of the planet. But of course, it also raises a lot of questions about what will happen to what is perhaps the most influential social media company in the world. At a time when authoritarians, insurrectionists, where they are weaponizing this information online in the way they’ve never did so before. Elon Musk says, he is buying Twitter to save free speech online. And what he means by that is, he wants to push back on efforts to moderate content on these websites.”