What will Elon Musk's ownership of Twitter mean for 'free speech' on the platform?
John Hawkins, Michael Walsh
Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society
National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling
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In a surprise capitulation, the board of Twitter has announced it will support a takeover bid by Elon Musk, the world's richest person. But is it in the public interest?
Musk is offering US$54.20 a share. This values the company at US$44 billion (or A$61 billion) – making it one of the largest leveraged buyouts on record.
Morgan Stanley and other large financial institutions will lend him US$25.5 billion. Musk himself will put in around US$20 billion. This is about the size of a single bonus he is expected to receive from Tesla.
In a letter to the chair of Twitter, Musk claimed he would "unlock" Twitter's "extraordinary potential" to be "the platform for free speech around the globe".
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Hawkins, J., & Walsh, M. (2022). What will Elon Musk's ownership of Twitter mean for 'free speech' on the platform? The Conversation, 2022(April), 1-5. https://theconversation.com/what-will-elon-musks-ownership-of-twitter-mean-for-free-speech-on-the-platform-181626
Hawkins, John ; Walsh, Michael. / What will Elon Musk's ownership of Twitter mean for 'free speech' on the platform?. In: The Conversation. 2022 ; Vol. 2022, No. April. pp. 1-5.
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What will Elon Musk's ownership of Twitter mean for 'free speech' on the platform? / Hawkins, John; Walsh, Michael.
In: The Conversation, Vol. 2022, No. April, 27.04.2022, p. 1-5.
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Hawkins J, Walsh M. What will Elon Musk's ownership of Twitter mean for 'free speech' on the platform? The Conversation. 2022 Apr 27;2022(April):1-5.