Elon Musk: “Twitter was being run at a very far left basis.”

“So I was very finely attuned to what the algorithm was showing me or not showing me and who got suspended or didn't get suspended. Twitter was being run at a very far left basis. When I felt the censorship was closing in, I was like, okay, I gotta do something. And the thing I can do is acquire Twitter and make it a bastion of free speech.” (03:57–04:01)

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