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With Elon Musk’s deal to acquire Twitter finalized on Monday, CNN Newsroom was left shaken by the idea that free speech would be allowed on the platform that they’ve relied on to gaslight the public and boost their egos. This fear ranged from concerns about former President Trump’s return to analogies suggesting Twitter would become a debauched and dirty party that will chase away users.
“This means that the world's richest man is going to effectively control one of the most influential platforms in the internet,” CNN reporter Matt Egan fretted near the top of the segment.
After co-host Victor Blackwell read a statement from Musk about how “[f]ree speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy,” chief media reporter Brian Stelter noted Musk was “approaching this in the same way he approaches Tesla and SpaceX. He's on a mission. He wants to save the digital planet and in his mind, Twitter is critical to that.”
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