Business | Moderating power
Free-speech idealism will clash with laws—and reality
Elon Musk’s Twitter challenges
|BERLIN
RESTORING THE supremacy of America’s First Amendment on Twitter seems priority number one for Elon Musk. Inconveniently, his acquisition of Twitter comes as several countries are passing laws to regulate how social-media firms should moderate content.
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