Changing of the Guard: Can Musk Deliver on His Promises for Free Speech and Information?

Changing of the Guard: Can Musk Deliver on His Promises for Free Speech and Information?
Illustration of a cellphone displaying a photo of Elon Musk placed on a computer monitor filled with Twitter logos in Washington on Aug. 5, 2022. Samuel Corum/AFP via Getty Images
Michael Rectenwald
Mises Institute
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Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter and his immediate firing of top brass represents a potential weakening of the Big Digital “woke” cartel that controls information, censors content, censures and bans users, and serves as a propaganda arm of leftist totalitarian statists. Given their cooperation with and promotion of leftist statism, it’s more than evident that Twitter, Facebook, Google, and others have served as state apparatuses, as what I’ve called “governmentalities.”
Michael Rectenwald, Ph.D., is a former professor at New York University and a distinguished fellow at Hillsdale College. He is the author of twelve books, including “The Great Reset and the Struggle for Liberty” (2022), “Thought Criminal” (2020), “Beyond Woke” (2020), “Google Archipelago” (2019), “Springtime for Snowflakes” (2018), and “Nineteenth-Century British Secularism” (2016).
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