Expect a Very Different Twitter Under Elon Musk

Playbook: “Twitter is enormously consequential to American politics and media, and the takeover by Musk will have major implications…”

“Signs point to a radically different Twitter, where Trump is back — he has said he won’t return but who believes that? — where content moderation is drastically dialed back, where the site, fairly or not, is seen as right-leaning and hostile to progressives, and where addictive TikTok-style content, which is not especially interesting to the media and politics-junkies who made the site essential, becomes more important.”

“A lot of this could be wrong. Trump might stick with his flailing Truth Social. Musk might solve the extraordinarily difficult issues around free speech and moderation. He might attract ideologically diverse users. And he might backtrack on his TikTok comments. But get ready for a lot of change, and very soon: He could control the platform as soon as this weekend.”

Axios: Musk’s Twitter To-Do List.