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The person chosen to oversee this board. >> objective of the board is to prevent disinformation and misinformation from traveling around the country in a range of communities. i'm not sure who opposes that effort and i don't know who this individual is. >> bill: can you explain to us how you understand it? what is it, who is on it, how do they work? >> administrative truth, a hallmark of any dictatorship and antithetical to american principles of freedom of speech. our entire democracy is based on the free exchange of ideas. a free society like ours you are allowed to express your opinion what...

Singapore, this is bbc news. it's newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. elon musk — the world's richest man — has bought twitter, in a deal worth $41; billion. in a joint statement, the two sides said they wanted to make the social media platform better than ever. elon musk said, "free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and twitter is the digital town square, where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated...". he went on to say, "i also want to make twitter better than ever by enhancing the product with new features". and shortly before the annoucement, elo...

On monday to a $44 billion takeover offerfrom the billionaire elon musk. he says his main aim is to reduce censorship on the platform. in his latest statement he said, "free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated". and here he is talking about it earlier this month. having a public platform that is maximum trusted and broadly inclusive is extremely important to the future of civilisation. i don't care about the economics at all. i don't care about the economics at all. so elon musk doesn...

Elon musk offered to fully buy twitter so it can be transformed as a private company. musk just became twitter's largest shareholder but says the social media giant needs to go private so it can better serve free speech. musk writes in part, "i invest in twitter as i believe in its potential to be the platform for free speech around the globe, and i believe free speech is a societal imperative for a functioning democracy." >> i'm all for free speech so long as we have free markets that go into it instead of suing people who slander you or with hate speech. let's have accountability so these te...

Messing around with how the votes are counted and getting rid of the non-partisan boards and sham audits. all of that is covered by our bill. it is a big problem. >> that was senator amy klobuchar who today argued that the time is now to pass federal legislation protecting the right to vote from suppression efforts by republican state legislatures. they will vote next week on the freedom to vote act and president biden will head to georgia to make the case for passing voting rights legislation. the president's speech yesterday marking the one-year anniversary of january 6th fulfilled many demo...