Elon Musk Backs Out of Twitter Deal and his “Free Speech” Absolutism

Credit: James Duncan Davidson

After an almost three-month-long saga of Elon Musk flirting with buying Twitter, it was announced on July 8th that he is backing out of the deal. I always believed that the Twitter purchase would never go through. Elon’s reasoning for backing out is vague — claiming that Twitter was withholding information regarding spam accounts. Furthermore, I don’t think this was the…