When Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion, he expanded his reach to five companies, spanning multiple industries, whose intersection with the government put the tech mogul and his growing global influence on the White House radar.
Musk has made it his mission to cure what he calls the “woke mind virus.” To some, his purchase of Twitter several months ago was just what the doctor ordered.
“$44 Billion was not the cost of Twitter. It was the cost of restoring ‘Free Speech,’” the Twitter account DogeDesigner posted last week.
“Some things are priceless,” Musk tweeted.
Not long after Musk took over, he reinstated several banned accounts—including former President Donald Trump—and unlocked a trove of internal Twitter communications known as the Twitter Files, which shed light on the depth of the company’s censorship and bias against conservative voices….