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The ‘Digital Town Square’: What Does It Mean When Billionaires Own the Online Spaces Where We Gather?
The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, seems set to purchase the social media platform Twitter for around US$44 billion. He says he’s not doing it to make money (which is good, because Twitter has rarely turned a profit), but rather because, among other things, he believes in free speech. Twitter might seem an odd place…