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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 March 2023
On April 25, news broke that Elon Musk and Twitter had reached a deal wherein Musk would buy Twitter for $44 billion. When and whether the deal will actually be finalized is up in the air, however. Musk's recent tweet that the Twitter deal is on hold, combined with his call for the U.S. Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) to investigate the amount of spam and bot accounts on Twitter, has contributed to uncertainty among investors about the future of the deal. Twitter stock has dropped, and the departure of high-level staff at Twitter has also signaled that the future of Musk's Twitter acquisition is murky.
This panel was convened at 9:00 a.m. on Friday, April 8, 2022 by its moderator, Catherine Powell of Fordham Law School, who introduced the speakers: Emma Llansó of the Center for Democracy and Technology; Jacquelene Mwangi of Harvard Law School; Matt Perault, of the Center on Tech Policy; and Arsalan Suleman of Foley Hoag LLP.
This piece was previously published by the Council on Foreign Relations on May 26, 2022, available here: https://www.cfr.org/blog/can-you-hear-me-speech-and-power-global-digital-town-square-0 (citation links available in the original publication). It is being republished with permission.