Can Twitter Survive as a Free-Speech Platform?

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Among all the large social-media platforms, only Twitter remains mostly free of intense political scrutiny and censorship. The rest are still doing today what they did during the pandemic: throttling, clocking, and banning content that contradicts regime priorities. And those priorities overlap with advertiser priorities, particularly the pharmaceutical companies, who exercise enormous influence.
When Elon Musk considered resigning as CEO of Twitter, he posted a poll. The answer came back that he should resign. “Vox Populi, Vox Dei,” he said. He then set out to find a new CEO. He did not post a poll. Instead he hired Linda Yaccarino, previously the head of advertising at NBCUniversal. She lobbied hard to be a CEO and Twitter was the ticket….