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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Alex Hern and Dan Milmo

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Heaven or hellscape what will elon musk s twitter look like - Caught on Camera

Elon Musk has walked back some of his early goals for Twitter.
Elon Musk has walked back some of his early goals for Twitter. Photograph: Patrick Pleul/AP

Elon Musk is not buying Twitter to make more money: he’s doing it to help humanity.

In a message to advertisers last week, the world’s richest man said it was important to the future of civilisation to have a “common digital town square”. But bettering the species is going to cost money, given that Musk has paid $44bn for a social media platform to achieve that aim.

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