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    What Elon Musk's bid for Twitter says about social media's political tightrope

    When the idea behind Twitter was first hatched in a meeting in 2006, the service was envisioned as a way for people to message their friends. Since then, the San Francisco company has grown to encompass 217 million daily active users and morphed into a town square where prominent global leaders communicate. But like other social media platforms, Twitter has also become a tool for ...
    by Wendy Lee, Los Angeles Times Apr 15, 2022 4 minutes
    German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Brandenburg State Premier Dietmar Woidke and Tesla CEO Elon Musk attend the official opening of the new Tesla electric car manufacturing plant on March 22, 2022, near Gruenheide, Germany.

    When the idea behind Twitter was first hatched in a meeting in 2006, the service was envisioned as a way for people to message their friends.

    Since then, the San Francisco company has grown to encompass 217 million daily active users and morphed into a town square where prominent global leaders communicate.

    But like other social media platforms, Twitter has also become a tool for politicization and has struggled to strike a balance between fostering free speech and combating misinformation.

    Those tensions surfaced Thursday, when Elon Musk's bid to buy Twitter for $43 billion became public, raising concerns from industry observers over how he would handle content on one of the world's most popular social media

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