This time last year, Elon Musk, world’s richest person and chief executive of Tesla, SpaceX, et al, was celebrating the end of a long and convoluted path to his acquisition of social media platform Twitter. The $44 billion deal, that first saw the light of day as an unsolicited offer in April 2022, was on the cusp of a potentially epic legal battle before Musk finally applied his signature to a purchase agreement last fall. At the time, he promised to remake Twitter, which has since been rebranded as X, through his own lens as a self-described “free speech absolutist.”