Tuesday’s top tech news: a trio of breakages
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To be fair, $44 billion should buy you some reach.
Elon Musk claimed he was buying Twitter to promote free speech, but as it turns out, his own speech is getting an exclusive premium.
The whole “free speech” myth of Musk buying Twitter has already been definitively refuted, but this latest development is the final nail in that coffin: this guy just wants everyone to see how funny and popular he is, despite all evidence to the contrary. All of this could have been avoided if Musk just admitted he wanted to buy Twitter because he loves to post.
Yes, Elon Musk created a special system for showing you all his tweets first
Zoë Schiffer and Casey Newton
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