Elon Musk’s ‘Free Speech’ Twitter Risks Alienating Advertisers and Users

The social network suppressed harassment and hate-speech not for moral reasons, but for practical ones.

Twitter headquarters in San Francisco, California, US, on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022.
Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

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By Sarah Frier

October 27, 2022 at 10:00 AM UTC

Hey, it’s Sarah Frier, a tech reporter and editor in San Francisco, here to talk about what the forthcoming — finally? — Elon Musk Twitter means for you. But first...

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