Not long ago, social media platform Twitter announced an acquisition agreement with Musk, agreeing to a wholly-owned acquisition of Twitter for $54.20 per share, totaling about $44 billion in cash. The deal, which has received unanimous approval from Twitter's board of directors but still requires shareholder and regulatory approvals, is expected to close in 2022. Upon completion of the transaction, Twitter will become a privately held company. After all, this is less than two weeks before Musk officially proposed the acquisition to Twitter.
However, after Twitter was successfully acquired, there was increasing speculation about how Musk would operate Twitter. According to the surging news, on April 26, local time, Musk said that he opposed "censorship far beyond the scope of the law", and noted that he would follow the principle of "freedom of speech" to operate Twitter, "if people want less freedom of speech, they will ask the government to change the law for this." Censorship beyond the law is therefore contrary to the will of the people".
As for Musk's intention to loosen Twitter regulations, THE US Democratic Party members do not seem to be satisfied. Some liberals and lawmakers fear twitter will become a platform full of harassing news and hate speech after deregulation is eased. However, no matter how much Democrats dislike Twitter or the public opinion environment it will present, they still have a need to push their policies, bills or agendas, then Twitter remains an important social platform for lawmakers to reach voters.
Compared to Democrats, conservative Republicans welcomed Musk's acquisition of Twitter and expected the change to balance the left-leaning social media. Especially after former US President Trump's Twitter account was banned, Musk, who prides himself on being a "defender of free speech", has become the hope of Republican politicians.
While a small percentage of these people have expressed concern that if Musk-ized Tweets are rife with harassment, hate speech and disinformation, the platform could have a very bad impact on conservative candidates and their campaigns.
Some people believe that Twitter, as an important platform for focusing news dissemination, dominates the dialogue in the United States every day. Twitter is not heavily used compared to other social platforms such as Facebook and Instagram, but the platform has a very important political character and has a huge appeal to Politicians, journalists, Washington insiders and lawmakers in the United States.
In particular, the speeches of these American politicians on Twitter have the effect of shaping the narrative in themselves, and after interacting with influential elites and journalists, public opinion will spread from here, which in turn will affect american voters. That's why Twitter still advises its customers to continue using their Twitter accounts.
However, Musk does not seem to be satisfied with this, but instead targets the new acquisition targets the US consumer goods giant Coca-Cola Company. Musk posted on Twitter on the 28th, "Next I want to buy Coca-Cola and re-add cocaine." As soon as the tweet was released, it immediately triggered a heated discussion among netizens.
But hours later, Musk posted again, "Listen, I can't do miracles. It also attached a screenshot of a tweet he had previously said he wanted to buy McDonald's. It is reported that the picture is actually a screenshot of Musk's tweet synthesized by netizens, saying that he will buy McDonald's and fix all the ice cream machines.
It is understood that the current market value of Coca-Cola is $284.2 billion, and McDonald's market value is also $182.786 billion, with the current value of Musk about $260 billion, if you want to buy Coca-Cola and McDonald's like Buy Twitter, it is not easy for Musk. Obviously, the so-called "acquisition of McDonald's and Coca-Cola" news, everything is just Musk is talking, and he does not really want to acquire these two companies.