Aidan Regan: Why the takeover of the digital town hall by the richest man on the planet is a bad idea

This article was first published in May, and has been re-published as Twitter begins cutting its Irish staff, with new owner Elon Musk initiating mass staff lay-offs.

If we care about the future of democracy in contemporary digital capitalism we need to urgently address the following questions: who should set the rules of free expression and online debate within internet platforms? Who should decide what is hate speech and what is free speech? And what ...