the world’s richest man and the owner of SpaceX and Tesla, says he is a free speech absolutist who doesn’t support the kind of content moderation that saw people like ex-President Donald Trump get banned for inciting violence.
His off-the-cuff policy changes and his decision to lay off a massive chunk of Twitter’s former staff have alarmed regulators—the Federal Trade Commission has asked Twitter to turn over all communications “related to Elon Musk,” while the European Union has reportedly floated a potential ban, in part because of Twitter’s “arbitrary” approach to banning and reinstating users.