We’re all suddenly getting a crash course in free market economics this week, in the wake of Elon Musk buying Twitter and threatening to make it an inhospitable landscape for advertisers, who are already fleeing like rats from a sinking ship. Well, everyone except for Elon Musk, anyway, who — despite being a relatively successful entrepreneur up until now — seems stuck on the idea that the lack of “free speech” is what’s holding the platform back.
Musk continued haranguing the idea on Twitter on Friday morning, blaming the massive drop in revenue not on his own tinkering with the platform, but on “activist groups pressuring advertisers.” Sure, Elon.