As you may have seen, Tesla Co-Founder and free speech advocate Elon Musk recently made an offer to buy Twitter for roughly $44 billion. Musk’s offer of $54.20 per share is a 38% premium over the company’s share price before the offer was made.
After two heated weeks – during which the Twitter Board reportedly prepared to throw up major financial and legal roadblocks to the purchase, the mainstream media decried the sale, and certain left-wing blue checkmarks on Twitter threatened to leave the platform – the Board has voted unanimously to accept Musk’s offer.
Musk has, in public statements and on Twitter, outlined some of his plans for the future of the company. Among other things, he says he wants to take the company private, make the algorithm open source, restore free speech to the platform, and eliminate the massive amount of Twitter bots.
Our research at WTP has previously shown that Floridians oppose Big Tech censorship of free speech—and we agree with them. While the future of Twitter under Musk’s leadership remains to be seen, our take is that this is a landmark moment for free speech advocates and conservatives nationwide.
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