It was the stock buyout heard ‘round the world. Tesla owner Elon Musk’s offer to buy Twitter could save the whole concept of online free speech and alter politics and elections globally for years to come. 

Twitter suspended a popular account that exposed radical liberals on TikTok. Seth Dillion, CEO of The Babylon Bee, reported that Libs of TikTok was suspended for violating Twitter’s rules against “hateful conduct.”

Rumble doubled down on its decision to allow RT to post on the platform. According to the Washington Examiner, YouTube previously banned RT at the beginning of March, when the Russian-owned news organization had over 4.5 million followers.

It’s Episode 33 of CensorTrack with TR. This week we’re talking about how the professional networking site LinkedIn censored an Air Force veteran’s testimony of hard work and perseverance.

Clinton stooge Robert Reich seemed to forget the meaning of the word “contradiction” while attacking the world’s richest man’s libertarian views on the internet. The former Secretary of Labor scaremongered to his readers how Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s “vision for the internet is dangerous nonsense.”

“I am close to a First Amendment absolutist,” former president Barack Obama said, even as he called misinformation potentially “fatal” and suggested “modifications” to online anonymity. The Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg interviewed Obama at his left-wing mag's “Disinformation and Erosion of Democracy” conference. Obama more than once used seemingly pro-free-speech language…

In a major reversal, Elon Musk rejected a seat on Twitter’s board of directors. The move caused some people to theorize that Musk may have a completely different strategy for reforming the company, one that doesn’t involve the company’s board.

A Big Tech social media platform allegedly censored an Air Force veteran for her posts on student loan debt. Gretchen Smith is an Air Force veteran and founded Code of Vets, a non-profit she created to honor her father who died at 57 after struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder. Smith shared her inspiring story on Twitter and LinkedIn.

Juanita Broaddrick was suspended from Twitter after she questioned the effectiveness of the vaccines for COVID-19. Broaddrick accused former President Bill Clinton of raping her in 1978.

In an op-ed published online Friday in The Washington Post, former Reddit CEO Ellen K. Pao slammed Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s investment in Twitter and, to put it mildly, his support and vision for free speech. Put simply, she called for Democracy Dying in Darkness.

A podcast host for The New York Times insisted that Twitter doesn’t censor people. "They have content moderation." Kara Swisher, who hosts the publication’s “Sway” podcast, was a guest on MSNBC’s Morning Joe where she discussed content moderation.

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk joining Twitter’s board of directors and buying a 9.2% stake in the behemoth social media is a victory for freedom of speech, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) says.

Seth Dillon, CEO of The Babylon Bee, explained why the satire site’s account was still locked. Twitter locked the account after The Bee posted that Rachel Levine was the site’s “Man of the Year.” Levine is a biological male that is being presented as a "transgender woman."

To block or not to block—Twitter has already answered that question. Twitter’s “Safety Mode” “autoblock” feature prevented users not only from commenting on a politician’s tweets, but even from seeing those tweets—specifically, for the @TeamPelosi account.