Elon Musk: I Acquired Twitter to Make It a Bastion of Free Speech

Elon Musk: When I felt the censorship was closing in, I acquired Twitter to make it a bastion of free speech.

“I started having concerns about three years ago, but I just had an uneasy feeling that something doesn't feel right. The censorship was becoming ridiculous.

I had the most interacted with account on Twitter before the acquisition, so I was very finely attuned to what the algorithm was showing me or not showing me, who got suspended or didn't get suspended. Twitter was being run at a very far-left basis.

When I felt the censorship was closing in, I was like, okay, I have to do something. I could acquire Twitter and make it a bastion of free speech.

And that's what we're trying to do with Twitter. No one on the left has been suspended, but we did unsuspend people on the right. Let the marketplace of ideas win.”

My View with Lara Trump, Fox News, May 3, 2025