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Musk the media mogul: he likes Twitter so much, he is buying it

The world’s richest person says he wants to defend free speech. But critics claim he has the politics of a ‘pubescent tech bro’

Elon Musk is widely considered the foremost entrepreneur of the era, a brilliant innovator who has brought electric cars to a mass market and made commercial space flight a reality.

But after agreeing to buy Twitter this week for $44bn, the world’s richest person has put himself at the centre of a politically toxic debate about free speech.

Why would such a restless individual swap dreams of one day colonising Mars for the more earthly pursuit of running a contested social media platform?

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