“Twitter never has and never will be a vehicle for democratic expression. It is a privately held corporation that monetizes human expression and algorithmically maximizes its distribution for profit, and what turns out to be most profitable is sowing social, cultural, and political division. Its participants are a very tiny, skewed slice of humanity that has American journalism in a choke hold.” 

Jill Lepore clear-eyed about Musk and (his cozy biographer).
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/09/18/elon-musk-walter-isaacson-book-review