* The funniest thing, by far, is this:
According to Fox News, Trump told the outlet he would not be moving back to Twitter, instead opting to stay on Truth Social, his social media platform on which he has to date only posted one single time, back before it officially launched.
"I am not going on Twitter, I am going to stay on TRUTH," Trump said to Fox News when the outlet reached out.
Conservatives who invested in Truth Social (and Owellian name if ever there was one) must be feeling especially stupid. (If they have enough self awareness.)
* As Megan McArdle has been arguing, it's not as if even Musk could make it a completely un-moderated space - otherwise it ends up a 4Chan-ish place like Gab that people (and advertisers) don't want to go near. So the question is how does it envisage new relaxed moderation rules, and can he trust the staff to implement them fairly. Obviously, Musk would allow Trump back on, but the funny part of that is...see above. [Also likely - things that can be said about transexuals will be relaxed, given his ex partner is supposed to be dating one.]
* Musk is foolish - like all libertarians - for not adequately recognising the role of disinformation via social media in seriously eroding a working democracy and enabling the rise of American (and in some cases, European) Christo-fascism. But he gives every impression of not caring about the greater political good, as long as he gets his Mars rockets built. (And the fact that there is no adequate life support plan for Mars colonisation is something he can only keep ignoring for so long. Just like his tunneling company is now just planning to dig a pedestrian tunnel - ha! - I wouldn't be surprised if he eventually gives up on Mars and just wants to build a Moon habitat.)
I think it is a musktake
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