The world’s richest man has singlehandedly transformed the dominant communications industry of the 21st century.
Headed by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy and promising – or, for some, threatening – to alter the long-embedded, free-spending bureaucratic culture of the nation’s capital, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been the talk of the Swamp since President-elect Donald Trump announced it. But a different decision made by Elon Musk two years ago has already proven to be even more significant.
For the bargain price of a mere $44 billion, Mr. Musk purchased Twitter in 2022 and turned it into X, unleashing an entirely new brand of social media where censorship would no longer exist as a defining characteristic. Musk promised just one thing: He would no longer cancel the expression of opinions on his…
