The Twitter takeover

Last week Elon Musk bought Twitter for around $44 billion and promised to increase free speech on the social-media platform. Will it be easy to make speech freer on Twitter? And is it the right thing to do?

Published 29 April 2022

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This week we explore Elon Musk's purchase of social-media platform Twitter and what this means for free speech.

Use this one-hour lesson to help your students:

  • Identify concerns about children using social-media
  • Assess whether social media users should have total freedom of speech
  • Use facts and examples to persuade listeners in a debate

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