Shouting about free speech was easier than actually managing a social media platform. Tesla’s shareholders must be looking on in horror
Photograph: Dado Ruvić/ReutersPhotograph: Dado Ruvić/Reuterslon Musk has owned Twitter for less than a week and it is already clear that the world’s richest man has no firm idea of what he wants to do with his $44bn folly. The easy bit was firing a few top executives, including the chief executive and the person in charge of content moderation. The rest is a muddle.
Musk has, though, shown a dawning awareness that shouting about free speech absolutism from the wings is easier than constructing workable policies from the inside. Thus the announcement of a “content moderation council”, seemingly to appease advertisers. There are, though, no details on how such a council would work or how its members would be appointed.
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