A victory for free speech or for disinformation? That is the 44-billion dollar question after Elon Musk's swoop for Twitter. Does it matter any more than Amazon's Jeff Bezos owning The Washington Post or all the French captains of industry whose often money-losing media purchases buy them a platform to voice their views? 

Twitter's certainly a bullhorn and the  boss of Tesla and SpaceX certainly has opinions: a free speech absolutism, Musk lets loose in his tweets, for instance once calling Canada's prime minister a Nazi over Covid restrictions. Who decides on what grounds whether say, a Donald Trump stays banned or gets restored to the platform? 

More broadly, is it up to Twitter, TikTok, Facebook and YouTube to regulate themselves? The European Union thinks not but how far will leaders jere go with plans to police content that incites hate and undermines democracy in the face of stiff opposition from across the Atlantic?

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