Who’s afraid of Elon Musk?

Is the combative entrepreneur fanning the flames of far-right politics or is he just “an angry man screaming into a hurricane”?

To his enthusiastic supporters, Musk is a truth-teller willing to defend freedom of speech no matter how unpopular. Bloomberg

Hannah Murphy

Aug 18, 2024 – 8.49am

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Shortly after Elon Musk announced his intention to buy Twitter in April 2022, the billionaire entrepreneur tweeted that for the social media platform “to deserve public trust, it must be politically neutral, which effectively means upsetting the far right and the far left equally”.

Up until that point, the right had repeatedly claimed that Twitter was a progressive mouthpiece, overrun with West Coast liberals who censored views or news they disliked.

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