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Who’s afraid of Elon Musk?

Is the combative entrepreneur fanning the flames of far-right politics or is he just ‘an angry man screaming into a hurricane’?

Shortly after Elon Musk announced his intention to buy Twitter in April 2022, the billionaire entrepreneur tweeted that for the social media platform “to deserve public trust, it must be politically neutral, which effectively means upsetting the far right and the far left equally”.

Up until that point, the right had repeatedly claimed that Twitter was a progressive mouthpiece, overrun with West Coast liberals who censored views or news they disliked.

Two years on, that notion has been turned on its head. X is now facing accusations that it has become a vehicle for the political views of its owner, who has veered sharply to the right and frequently grandstands on domestic and international affairs.

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