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Podcast: Townhall Review | Commentaries
Episode: Carol Platt Liebau: A New Future for Twitter
Description: It’s official: Elon Musk will buy Twitter for roughly 44 billion dollars—or $54 per share. Shareholders will reap a 38 percent premium over the company’s share price earlier this month, before Musk disclosed he was its biggest shareholder. Twitter has been the digital forum for our culture’s most influential voices. But—in recent years—conservative voices have been unfairly prevented from competing in this marketplace of ideas. In a statement, Musk—who’s previously criticized Twitter’s alleged censorship of right-leaning users—hailed free speech as, “the bedrock of a functioning democracy.” Observers across the pol...