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

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

Download our one-hour Headline teaching resource on Elon Musk's Twitter takeover.

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