Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R)
DeSantis has been chomping at the bit to see Musk take control of the social media platform, and unlike the Disney fairies who will likely never grant him another wish, Musk was more free to let his dreams come true.
The governor said during a televised press conference that “It seems like over the last five or six years, these big tech companies, including Twitter, have gone from open platforms to being enforcers of the narrative.”
Twitter has previously banned DeSantis’ press secretary Christina Pushaw for, in now-deleted tweets, asking her followers to “drag” an Associated Press reporter for writing about how DeSantiswas promoting a company’s Covid antibody treatment that he was also investing big money into.
Before news of the sale went live,DeSantis wrote on Twitter that “@elonmusk’s offer to buy Twitter is a good deal for shareholders and raises the prospect that the platform will be a place where free speech can thrive, not a tool for narrative enforcement.”
