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Elon Musk wants to put his free speech absolutism to the test on Twitter. What will that look like in practice when all the rules and content moderation are removed?

So excited today. >> carley: full circle with the band. cheryl casone, congratulations. twitter employees speaking out about elon musks takeover and showing how outraged they are by tweeting about it. mecklenburg is former ceo and president of convention of states. mark, good morning, before we get to the outrage and there is so much, your reaction on elon musk buying twitter, how do you feel about it? >> mark: i feel fantastic, it is necessary strength for free speech and hes one guy who might ...

Number. we will stand up for those kids, too. >> todd: we will be watching, thank you for your time and insight. >> thank you. >> todd: elon musk used to be a liberal darling because of the green car company, but media turned on him for trying to restore free speech on twitter. >> elon musk calls himself a free speech, that is bs, it is about free speech of straight white men. >> carley: joe concha coming up next. ♪ (music) who said you have to starve yourself to lose weight? who said you cant...

Twitter employees search for answers as Musk takeover becomes reality

Musk's offer values the company at $43 billion and would take it private, catapulting Musk into leadership. Learn more at Boston.com.

SAN FRANCISCO — Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s chief executive, was working remotely on a private island in French Polynesia frequented by celebrities escaping the paparazzi when a phone call interrupted him on Jan. 6. On the line was Vijaya Gadde, Twitter’s top lawyer and safety expert, with an update from the real world. She said she and other company executives had decided to lock President Trump’s account, temporarily, to prevent him from posting statements that might provoke more violence ...

Jack Dorsey, the chief executive, had reservations about locking the president’s account. But the calls for violence that his tweets provoked were too overwhelming.

Twitter following americans who just want to participate in democracy dont even realize theyre retweeting or recording this deliberately false information. russia linked twitter accounts are working overtime to helping this release the memo hash tag rise, inside twitter, is it a problem of will in your view, or is it too technologically hard? >> i think the answer is neither. its certainly not a problem of will. if you told people inside facebook and instagram and twitter, you could snap your fi...

With bob mueller. and now the russians are using facebook and twitter to fuel an ongoing attack on the fbi. its a big story, and i can tell you i have an exclusive interview with the former ceo of twitter. first word you think of

A guilty plea if he did not think that michael flynn could give information about people above him. he doesnt know what all these witnesses said, so the witness is in serious legal jeopardy and if he makes any lies, robert muellers taeam is going to kno that. >> we handedhanded -- we are go fit in a break and we have more on this story, donald trump saying he would love to sit down with bob mueller. and there are ongoing reports of release the memo now. and i have a conversation with the ceo of ...