Audio Essay: The Misunderstanding of Elon Musk

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Audio Essay: The Misunderstanding of Elon Musk

His hypocrisy isn’t the real problem. But the real problem with Elon is a very big problem.

Robert Wright

Feb 24, 2023

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The Misunderstanding of Elon Musk

I think people are overdoing the Elon-Musk-is-a-hypocrite thing. I’m not saying he’s not a hypocrite. It’s true that he promised to make Twitter a haven for free speech and then, once he was running the place, started stifling speech he found threatening—speech…

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