A free speech absolutist, Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover might not be good news for ‘thin-skinned’ Indians who are quick to take offence
Elon Musk acquired Twitter after a week-long saga during which he first became the company’s largest shareholder, then offered to buy it outright. The world’s richest person secured a deal agreeing to buy the social network for $54.20 a share —valuing the firm at roughly $44 billion. Pic/Getty Images
If a month ago, someone had said that Elon Musk would buy Twitter, it would have been deemed impossible,” says Raheel Khursheed, former head of news, politics and government at Twitter India and South Asia, and now co-founder of streaming tech platform Laminar Global. “But he has done it, and that too, in a record 21 days, even though we will know if the final deal will go through only by October or so.”
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