Elon Musks Twitter acquisition: What are the implications for users? | In Focus
In the last week of April, Twitter\u2019s Board of Directors unanimously accepted billionaire businessman Elon Musk\u2019s buyout offer of $44 billion. The deal is currently pending regulatory approval. But as and when it goes through, it will allow Musk to take Twitter private, giving him complete control over what he has described as a \u201cde facto public town square\u201d.\nWill the SpaceX and Tesla CEO do a good job of managing a politically sensitive platform like Twitter? Musk has said that he is a \u2018free speech absolutist\u2019 but many have interpreted it to mean that Twitter may stop censoring hate speech and flagging disinformation the way it does now. As Twitter changes hands, what are the likely implications for users?\nGuest: Apar Gupta, advocate and Executive Director at the Internet Freedom Foundation\nHost: G. Sampath, Social Affairs Editor,\xa0The Hindu\nEdited by Ranjani Srinivasan