Social Media vs. Freedom

For the past few weeks, politically-engaged Twitter users have either lamented or praised Elon Musk for his new ownership of Twitter, a microblogging social media website that has an outsized influence on much of American politics. Recently, he handed over a tremendous cache of internal files to a handful of free speech journalists like Bari Weiss and Matt Taibbi as part of his effort to clear the air surrounding the company’s opaque content management practices.