Elon Musk is a gifted entrepreneur – but can he also handle the responsibility of a global opinion platform?
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“The bird is free,” wrote Elon Musk when he just took over the short message service Twitter. And what he, the richest man in the world, means by freedom, he shows right away. The freedom, for example, to lay off most of the employees immediately. Or the freedom to say everything that is imaginable. Musk describes himself as an “absolutist of free speech” and announces: “Freedom of expression is the basis of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital marketplace where the issues important to the future of mankind are discussed.”
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