It’s not rocket science, why Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover could be bad for privacy – TechCrunch

Elon Musk has put an end to weeks of speculation with the announcement that Twitter has accepted his offer to buy the platform for $54.20 per share share, valuing the social media platform at about $44 billion.
While Musk’s drawn-out pursuit of Twitter has come to an end, for him at least, the next chapter of Twitter’s history and its hundreds of millions of users is just beginning.
The deal drew immediate fears that Musk, a self-styled ‘free speech absolutist,’ could turn back the dials on content moderation, potentially unraveling years of work that curbed the unfettered spread of hate speech and misinformation.