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San Francisco - 13 May 2020
1. Twitter headquarters exterior
San Jose, California - 25 April 2022
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Ahmed Banafa, Professor of Engineering Technology, San Jose State:
"He actually silenced some of his critics when it comes to people talking about Tesla. He cannot take it when somebody, you know, attacks a certain product. So that's going to be the tough point for him to say that it's going to be free speech. Free speech for you is hate speech for somebody else. Free speech for you is, you know, a violation of the laws and the policies of this country."
San Francisco - 13 May 2020
3. Twitter headquarters exterior
San Francisco - 25 April 2022
4. SOUNDBITE (English) David Greene, Civil Liberties Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation:
"I think those of us who follow content moderation, I've heard lots of platforms say they want to be a free speech platform, and yet that means a lot of different things. And what it doesn't mean is not moderating content, right? So no matter how many platforms have come before and say we're going to be the free speech platform, they all moderate content. Even if they want to, they find that they have to. It's just not possible to have a site where they allow everything that users submit to be published."
San Francisco - 13 May 2020
5. Twitter headquarters exterior
San Jose, California - 25 April 2022
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ahmed Banafa, Professor of Engineering Technology, San Jose State:
"This is what he said about the banned account, he said he doesn't believe in that. He said should be banned temporary, basically I can ban you for a year and then you can come back. He doesn't believe in the permanent blocking of people or kicking them out of platform, and that's opened the door for all the speculation about all the people being banned, you know, the past few years and the top of them is the former President Trump."
New York - 4 April 2019
7. Elon Musk surrounded by media and supporters after attending hearing at federal courthouse
San Francisco - 25 April 2022
8. SOUNDBITE (English) David Greene, Civil Liberties Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation:
"I have a concern just based on his past behavior. And again, I don't know this man personally. But just based on his public behavior in the past, that his concept of freedom of speech is a very limited concept for freedom of speech, for people who are already in positions of power and does not have a great concern or really even a great understanding of freedom of speech for people who are routinely denied that freedom."
New York, 7 May 2018
9. Elon Musk and Grimes posing at the Met Gala
STORYLINE
Social media users and analysts are wondering how Elon Musk will run Twitter after Monday's agreement to buy the social media giant for roughly $44 million
Musk, the world's wealthiest person and a self-described free-speech absolutist, has said he wanted to buy and privatize Twitter because he believed it wasn't living up to its potential as a free speech platform.
It raised questions about whether he might reinstate Donald Trump's account as the former president lays the groundwork for another White House run in 2024.
Trump has continued to spread lies about his 2020 election defeat in speeches and statements since leaving office, and it is unclear how Musk would approach those statements if Trump were ever to return to the site.
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