Opinion | Elon Musk, Twitter and the Ghosts of the 2016 and 2020 Elections

From WSJopinion: Elon Musk’s bid is apocalyptic if you believe tweets decide elections. He is not the naif he finds it useful to play, writes Holman W. Jenkins

Review & Outlook: Publications that ignored the Hunter Biden story in 2020 now admit it's real. Will Joe Biden finally answer the questions he refused to answer before he became President? Images: New York Post/AFP/Getty Images Composite: Mark KellyThe law of scarcity applies to Elon Musk. Whatever his paper wealth, he is as impoverished as the rest of us in the time and attention he can devote to his many interests, which is one reason his Twitter bid is likely to fizzle out.

I can think of others. Mr. Musk is not the naïf he finds it useful to play. He knows, for business reasons as well as political reasons, that Twitter has crossed the river of no return in “moderating” the content that appears on its service—it can’t allow untrammeled free expression.

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