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Elon Musk buys Twitter

The world's richest man now owns one of the biggest social media platforms. So what might he do with it, and what changes can we expect?

It is the moment nobody was quite sure would actually happen. After months of drama, Elon Musk says his $44bn deal to buy Twitter is complete. The world's richest man now owns one of the biggest social media platforms.

In the past, Elon Musk has described himself as a 'free speech absolutist', and has suggested he might use Twitter as the foundation to create a super-app he calls X. But there's still a lot we don't know about what he has planned.

So how did we get here, and what might happen next? For 5 Questions On, the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Technology Editor Zoe Kleinman explains what Elon Musk's Twitter might look like.

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