The worlds of high finance and social media collided Monday with the news that South African billionaire Elon Musk has purchased a majority share in the social media giant Twitter.

With the purchase worth $2.9 billion, Musk became Twitter’s largest shareholder, according to The New York Times, and made it clear that a man who’s publicly courted dissatisfaction with Twitter is putting his money where his mouth is.

The question now is where he takes it from here — and Twitter’s liberals can’t be happy about the possibilities.

Twitter is the platform that squelched the New York Post’s groundbreaking report in 2020 about then-candidate Joe Biden’s wayward son Hunter and the laptop he left in a Delaware computer store, brimming with evidence that he’d used his father’s position and family name to grift millions in foreign countries.

It’s a platform that has routinely demonstrated blatant bias against conservatives — and banned now-former President Donald Trump in his last days in office........

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