Twitter under Elon Musk will be a scary place

GREG BENSINGER

Twitter has never been a place for rational, nuanced speech. Expect it to get much, much worse.

The decision by Twitter’s board of directors on Monday afternoon to accept a takeover bid from Elon Musk means the company thinks the social media company would be best served by the ownership of a man who uses the platform to slime his critics, body-shame people, defy securities laws and relentlessly hawk cryptocurrencies.